A reporter pressed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday on whether he was overseeing a 'functional process' with the massive government funding bill.
A reporter asks Chuck Schumer if he can defend the end-of-year spending bill as a 'functional process.', D-N.Y., found himself getting pressed Tuesday on whether he was overseeing a"functional process" to pass a massive federal government funding bill.
"The bill has been carefully worked on by the Appropriations Committee for a very, very long time," Schumer said."Most of the provisions were well known weeks and weeks and weeks in advance, and getting this bill done for the American people, which really matters, is the most important thing." While the bill was bipartisan, many Republicans voiced their opposition to the process and the price tag online.
"I wonder how long it would take the clerk to read this…," he tweeted, seemingly threatening to force the Senate clerks to read all 4,100 pages of the bill on the floor, as Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., did"Every Republican should be a NO on the omnibus spending bill," Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., wrote on Twitter."Dropped early this morning is a 4,155-page $1.
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