{"id":45875,"date":"2022-03-10T00:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T08:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45875"},"modified":"2022-03-10T00:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T08:33:43","slug":"house-passes-sweeping-1-5-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45875","title":{"rendered":"House passes sweeping $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House passed a sweeping $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0night\u00a0to fund the government, hours after lawmakers scrapped billions in funding to combat the COVID-19 pandemic amid resistance from Democrats upset about plans to yank already allocated relief from states.<\/p>\n<p>The House first voted 361-69 to back funding for the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security and other national security priorities, and then 260-171,\u00a0with one Democrat voting &#8220;present,&#8221;\u00a0to adopt the provisions largely related to domestic programs.<\/p>\n<p>Congress faces a time crunch to get the legislation to\u00a0President Biden\u00a0for his signature, since current federal funding expires this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers also passed a stopgap measure by voice vote that lasts until next Tuesday to ensure that the Senate has enough time to clear the omnibus package without risking a government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House passed a sweeping $1.5&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45876,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45875\/revisions\/45876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}