Nancy Pelosi is on her way out the door.
But she left one last parting gift before stepping down as speaker of the House.
And it’s one of the most reckless liberal bills of all time.
Nancy Pelosi may be leaving as speaker of the House in January, but that did not stop her from leaving America one last gift on her way out the door.
And that gift ended up being one of the largest liberal spending bills to ever pass Congress.
The 1.7 trillion-dollar omnibus bill was sold to members of Congress as a way to avert a government shutdown.
But in typical Washington fashion, last-minute backdoor dealings and closed-room negotiations resulted in billions of dollars in pet projects being crammed into this “essential” spending bill in order to force weak-kneed Republicans and careless Democrats in Congress into voting for it.
And now, there is little that can prevent the bill from making its way to Joe Biden’s desk, where he will surely sign it into law.
Politico reports, “The House passed a stopgap spending bill Wednesday night that gives negotiators an extra week to finish a $1.7 trillion year-end spending package, setting up an all-out legislative sprint before lawmakers leave for the holidays.”
The spending package will mark one of the last bills that Nancy Pelosi will shepherd through the House of Representatives before she leaves office as speaker of the House in early January.
And while it remains to be seen who will ultimately succeed her, Republicans are currently fighting it out within their own caucus over which one of them will ultimately become speaker next year.
“The temporary funding patch, approved in a 224-201 vote, staves off a government shutdown Friday at midnight and extends federal cash through Dec. 23. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate could pass the measure as soon as Thursday, as long as there isn’t ‘unwelcome brouhaha’ — a reference to the ability of any one senator to hold up the funding fix in exchange for concessions or amendment votes,” adds Politico.
Ultimately, nine liberal Republicans joined with the Democrats in voting for the big-government boondoggle bill, sending the legislation to the Senate where it is expected to pass it.
The bill will also allow Democrats to continue running most elements of the federal government without any cuts all the way through the end of the next fiscal year in September 2023.
This means that Republicans will have very little to negotiate with come next year when they take power in Congress, as the threat of withholding federal funding for a series of liberal wish list items would have given them the ability to extract concessions from Democrats in the Senate and the White House.
But instead, Pelosi managed to score one final victory for the Left before she steps down from power in a matter of weeks.
The bill is expected to be one of the last major left-wing pieces of legislation that will pass in 2022, setting the stage for divided government going into 2023.
