House and Senate approve deal to avert shutdown, sending measure to White House

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

With little more than a day left before funding expires for key parts of the government, the House and Senate both voted on Thursday to approve a spending deal to avert a shutdown, sending the legislation to the White House for President Donald Trump's signature.

The House vote, which took place late Thursday evening, was 300 to 128. The Senate vote, which took place earlier in the day, was 83 to 16.

After weeks of uncertainty over whether the President would accept a bill that did not meet his demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding, the White House announced on Thursday that the President would sign the compromise legislation, but will also take executive action in a bid to get the money the administration wants for border security.

The compromise deal will only provide $1.375 billion for border barriers, far short of what the President has asked for to build his long-promised border wall.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/house-vote-shutdown-deal-congress/index.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. He has to check in with Hannity, Graham, Coulter and Rush first.

After that he MAY sign it, may not sign it, may scratch his ass and play some indoor golf, then eat a bucket or two of chicken since his doctor said he needs to gain weight, then he will ask Jarvanka what to do, then he will ask Barron what to do, then he will ask his Magic 8 Ball what to do, then......he will change his mind and start to scratch his ass again.......

[still_one]

2. he'll sign it. The interesting thing is there were Democrats in the Senate who voted NAY on this

bill, that voted YEA on a similar previous bill that went down that would have reopened the government.

In this case it didn't affect the bill from passing in the Senate, but I think they are going to be questioned why they voted one way the first time, and a different way a second time

[George II]

4. There were also Democrats who voted nay in the House, too.

[still_one]

5. You are correct George.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. There is a retroactive 1.9% pay raise for federal employes in there too!

Pay raise for federal employees would be retroactive; senior appointees also would benefit

By Eric Yoder
February 14 at 12:27 PM

The 1.9 percent federal employee pay raise in a bill ready for final voting in Congress would be paid retroactively to Jan. 6 and would be split so that employees in the Washington-Baltimore area would stand to receive more than that figure.

In addition under the bill, senior political appointees would see their first raise since 2010, although not the large jump they otherwise would have received under the complex federal pay law.

Those provisions bring to an end a lengthy back-and-forth debate over a raise for about 2.1 million federal employees. The 1.9 percent figure, first endorsed by the Senate last summer, would override the salary rate freeze that President Trump ordered in late December when Congress had not acted, although it falls below the 2.6 percent boost the House recently endorsed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/14/pay-raise-federal-employees-would-be-retroactive-senior-appointees-also-would-benefit/?utm_term=.08b58b6c9402

[Cha]

6. Thanks, BRDS!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I am glad that got added in!!!

Takes a little bit of the sting off the whole ordeal.