Showing once again that holding firm to principle results in positive outcomes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has just pulled the horrific Omnibus Spending Bill.
$1.3 trillion in trash, loaded with pork, an offense to millions of voters in the recent November midterms, McConnell out-strategized and outmaneuvered Reid and their last second effort to screw the American tax-paying public out of additional hundreds of billions in deficit spending.
Good job by Sen. McConnell. Keep it up.
Senate Dem leader drops nearly $1.3T spending bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that's laced with homestate pet projects known as earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 trillion bill after several Republicans who had been thinking of voting for the bill pulled back their support.
GOP leader Mitch McConnell threw his weight against the bill in recent days, saying it was in his words "unbelievable" that Democrats would try to muscle through in just a few days legislation that usually takes months to debate.
Reid said he would work with McConnell to produce a short-term funding bill to keep the government running into early next year.
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