News from Washington: the “shutdown” has been kicked down the road for two more weeks. From Politico,
Senate passes $1.2T government funding deal — but a brief shutdown is certain.
The “T” stands for “trillion.” If the U.S. House of Representatives goes along with the deal Monday evening, all but a few federal agencies will be full funded through the end of September, with parts of Homeland Security just getting another two weeks of funding.
This has to be a typo. The Hill newspaper reported last night, regarding the trillion-dollar-spending package,
It provides $20 million in additional spending for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, $85 million more for the Child Care and Development Block Grant and $85 million more for Head Start education, which Democrats touted as big wins.
“Million” with an “m”? “Big wins”? $190 million doesn’t even qualify as a medium-sized Somali fraud.
The world’s greatest deliberative body, they say.
