Subject: GOP House passes bill
On to the Senate.

https://apnews.com/article/con...

From reading this, hard to tell what really is in it. Though apparently at least one congressman doesn't know that Congress controls the purse strings, and it is not a "legitimate exercise of Executive power" to control spending. If it does, in fact, give the Executive more discretion about spending, I'm against it. The Executive has been amassing too much power for far too long. Congress is responsible for the money, and it's time they shouldered that responsibility again. But I will reserve final judgment until I know more about it.

Both parties were prepared to blame the other if the bill failed.

“It looks like they’re going to try to shut down the government,” Johnson said of Democrats.

“If the government shuts down with a Republican House, Republican Senate and Republican president, it will be solely because the Republicans have moved forward with a terrible, partisan, take-it-or-leave-it bill,” said Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.

Yeah, that bit of pre-finger-pointing was predictable.