Senate passes $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% :The package includes $858 billion in defense spending, a nearly 10% increase over the previous fiscal year, and $787 billion in nondefense spending, close to an 8% increase.
55% : Senate passage paves the way for the House to clear the legislation ahead of government spending running out at midnight Eastern time on Friday.
55% : Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said earlier this week the package "equips our armed forces with the resources they need while cutting nondefense, nonveteran spending in real dollars."Democrats also highlighted priorities in the package, including the first funding increase for the National Labor Relations Board in over a decade, increased clean energy funding in the Energy-Water bill and more funding for affordable housing.
54% : Republicans praised the measure's higher level of defense spending and smaller increase on the nondefense side as a win in negotiations, and highlighted the retention of the Hyde amendment, that blocks federal funding for abortion in most cases, and flat-funding the IRS.
51% : Democrats allowed consideration of Lee's amendment with a simple majority threshold in exchange for a vote on an amendment proposed by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., that, in addition to blocking funds for ending Title 42, would appropriate $8.7 billion for border security and migrant care.

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