Is a budget-busting bill boosting just about every federal agency really the last big act of Congress before the November midterm elections? But the $1.3 trillion spending bill is probably lawmakers’ last major achievement as they observe what has become a tradition in these hyperpartisan times, settling into gridlock and girding themselves for the midterm elections. Hours after he threatened to veto, President Trump said he will sign the omnibus spending bill into law, averting a government shutdown. He warned that the benefits from the additional spending will hit taxpayers with larger debt and the financing of the more than $20 trillion debt. That law was supposed to cut federal spending by nearly $1 trillion through a decade of spending limits to federal agency budgets.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2018 11:36 UTC