by RAY LEWIS
Fri, March 22nd 2024 at 10:05 AM
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The funding package includes $1.2 trillion for HHS and the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, State, Labor and Education.
These final six bills represent a bipartisan and bicameral compromiseโthey will invest in the American people, build a stronger economy, help keep our communities safe and strengthen our national security and global leadership,โ Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, argued.
The senators pushed colleagues to avert a shutdown by approving the package.
โSenate appropriators held more than fifty committee hearings, received input from virtually every Member and marked up and advanced twelve strong bipartisan bills out of our committee for the first time in years,โ they claimed. โMuch of that work is reflected in this final product.โ
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