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Originally Posted by rmd2
There are many things in this bill that have NOTHING to do with either COVID or "keeping the government running" and the comment that "this is the way Congress has always done it" doesn't cut it with me!
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The Omnibus bill was needed to keep the government running. Had it not passed, the government would have shut down like it has a few times in the recent past. The Omnibus bill contains a lot of things, approximately $1.4T worth of things and many people believe many of those things have nothing to do with running government.
This is the way Congress has passed appropriations for many years. It isn't "the way things should be done" but it's the way things have been done for quite a while.