{"id":2767,"date":"2022-12-30T02:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T08:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2023-03-10T02:33:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:33:01","slug":"biden-signs-1-7-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill-averting-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Biden Signs $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill, Averting Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; US President Joe Biden said he signed the $1.7 trillion omnibus government spending bill passed by Congress earlier this month, which will fund the work of the government in 2023 and avert a government shutdown.<br \/>\n&#8220;Today, I signed the bipartisan omnibus bill, ending a year of historic progress,&#8221; Biden said on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe legislation includes $858 billion in defense spending and an additional $45 billion for Ukraine, as well as investments in disaster recovery and veteran health care.<br \/>\nCongress passed the bill to close out its lame duck session, avoiding a government shutdown slated to begin when funding expired this month.<br \/>\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, August 10 , 2022, in Washington. &#8211; Sputnik International, 1920, 23.12.2022<br \/>\nThe bill was passed despite objections from some Republican lawmakers, who sought to craft a comprehensive budget next year instead, when they will have a majority in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/12\/30\/president-joe-biden-signs-omnibus-spending-bill-avoids-government-shutdown\/\">Sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; US President Joe Biden said he signed the $1.7 trillion omnibus government spending bill passed by Congress earlier this month, which will fund the work of the government in 2023 and avert a government shutdown. &#8220;Today, I signed the bipartisan omnibus bill, ending a year of historic progress,&#8221; Biden said on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1169,1274,3032,3031],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-bill","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-the-democratic-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7237,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/7237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}