Nearly six months behind schedule, Congress voted last night to pass a mammoth “omnibus” spending bill to keep the federal lights on for the rest of the fiscal year. Sometimes the game looks like hide-and-seekHouse party leaders gave rank and file just hours to review the mammoth spending agreement. Republican leaders — expecting that they would lose the votes of the far-right Freedom Caucus — did that on purpose. That’s why GOP leaders have said relatively little about what’s in the bill. By design or plan, party leaders defaulted into stalemate.

Source: Washington Post March 23, 2018 12:00 UTC