US senators reach deal to proceed with $1.2trn spending bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : US senators from both main political parties reached a late agreement to avert a partial government shutdown over a $1.2trn spending bill, capping a brief budgetary stand-off that threatened to close non-essential operations of some federal agencies.
56% : The agreement in the Senate involved allowing Republicans in the upper chamber a vote on a series of amendments -- including some tied to tightening immigration laws -- as they try to use the surge in border crossings as a political weapon against Democrats in the 2024 election.
41% : Although the Senate passed the national security package backed by the White House earlier this year, it has languished in the House, where Johnson has resisted putting it up for a vote under pressure from Ukraine aid sceptics within his party -- and Trump.Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, has been floating a plan to offer Ukraine a loan instead, which some Democrats are warming to as a last resort, but most supporters of Kyiv in Washington are still hoping in a breakthrough on the aid package.
34% : Say what you will, but they're committed to open borders," JD Vance, the Ohio senator close to Trump, wrote on X before the deal was reached.
15% : Although the House approved the spending bill with broad bipartisan support on Friday, it triggered a backlash from allies of Donald Trump within the Republican party who objected to the compromise.

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