House passes $1.2 TRILLION spending deal, but what’s actually in it? Brace yourself.



Much to the dismay of conservatives who have been pleading for spending cuts, the House passed a $1.2 trillion government funding bill mere hours before the shutdown deadline. The package will fund the government through the end of the fiscal year (September 30).

But the astronomical expense isn’t the only thing conservatives are upset about. What’s actually in the bill is largely problematic as well.

Of the $1.2 trillion, “$500 million [is] appropriated for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency,” which will “support the Armed Forces of Jordan and to enhance security along its borders,” reads Glenn.

The bill also allocated funds to LGBTQ+ projects, including what Glenn Beck humorously calls “the grooming, binding, and tucking” initiative that will develop “new underpants for kids” in the community.

“There's a lot of LGBTQ kids out there without underpants because you know, that's just the way America is right now — underpant-less,” he mocks.

Further, “there are agencies that [Glenn] didn't even know existed that are getting billions of dollars” — agencies like the United States Agency for International Development, which he says “is just an arm of the CIA.”

The organization is “giving money all over the world and not for anything that you actually think is right but for what the CIA thinks is right,” he explains.

One senator reached out to Glenn following the passing of the bill with the following message: “Glenn, we’re going to hell in a handbag.”

Glenn wholeheartedly agrees.

“If we don't turn this thing around by fall, sorry gang. I hate to say it, but you're just not going to come back from all of this.”

To hear more about the spending bill, watch the clip below.


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Sen. Mike Lee asks for up or down vote on funding Biden's vaccine mandate



A small group of conservatives led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is pushing for an up or down vote on funding President Joe Biden's federal vaccine mandate ahead of Friday's deadline to fund the government.

In what should by now be a familiar story, Congress must pass a short-term government funding bill by Friday, or else the government will shut down. Lawmakers in the House of Representatives struck a deal on Thursday to keep the government open, but the Senate could pose an obstacle to passing the funding bill.

Lee and a handful of other Senate Republicans are threatening to delay the funding bill past Friday's midnight deadline unless they are granted a vote on an amendment to defund the president's vaccine mandate.

Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Lee said a number of senators are "not inclined to give consent to expedite a funding measure that supports and funds President Biden's unconstitutional and sweeping vaccine mandate without holding a vote on that mandate." Without their support, the government may shut down.

If the government shuts down for an extended period of time, federal workers may be furloughed and certain non-essential government services, like national parks, will be suspended.

Lee offered an alternative to a shutdown by asking for a simple majority vote on funding Biden's vaccine mandate, calling his suggestion a "reasonable solution."

"I'm not asking that a poison pill or pet project be included. I'm not asking for dramatic reforms or draconian cuts, far from it," Lee said. "I just want a vote on one amendment. I want the members of this body to go on record on whether they support funding in this bill President Biden's vaccine mandate."

"The American people have a right to know through our votes where we stand," he added.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT): "I just want a vote on one amendment. I want the members of this body to go on record on whether they support funding in this bill President Biden's vaccine mandate. The American people have a right to know through our votes where we stand."pic.twitter.com/cALCUKYEa6
— CSPAN (@CSPAN) 1638469125

The mandate, which Biden announced in September, orders companies with more than 100 employees to require that their workers get vaccinated against COVID-19 or be regularly tested for the virus. The administration estimated that the requirement would impact more than 80 million Americans, and any company that refused to comply could face steep fines.

However, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration suspended the mandate in October in response to a federal court order, after at least 27 states filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Biden's order.

The Senate Republican conference is divided on Lee's strategy. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) are with Lee. But other GOP senators do not want to risk a government shutdown over BIden's vaccine mandate, especially because the administration has already suspended the order.

“There was not full agreement, that’s for sure,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) told Politico Wednesday after the Republicans discussed the issue during a lunch meeting. "Shutdowns almost never work out," he said.

Politico reported that most of the conference is opposed to the idea of fighting Biden's vaccine mandate in the government funding bill.

“I just don’t quite understand the strategy or the play of leverage for a mandate that’s been stayed by 10 courts,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.). "I want the vaccine mandates lifted, but I don’t think the [spending bill] is the tool to do it. For all practical purposes, the mandates weaken every single day.”

Sen. Mitt Romney, Lee's colleague from Utah, is among those opposed to the effort.

"It smacks of virtue signaling when the courts have already put a stay on it and when the Biden administration isn’t enforcing a vaccine mandate on federal employees," Romney said Thursday.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is also opposed to any talk of a government shutdown.

“We’re not going to shut the government down,” he told Fox News Thursday. "That makes no sense for anyone. Almost no one on either side thinks that’s a good idea.”