Trump, Senate GOP agree on frame of fast-track spending bill
Source: msn/Bloomberg
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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump and top Senate Republicans agreed Friday to the outline of a partisan fast-track spending bill aimed at bypassing minority Democrats and focused on providing funding for immigration enforcement and the US Border Patrol.
The president and party leaders are pushing back against efforts by some rank-and-file GOP lawmakers to include new tax cuts and additional rollbacks in health care and other entitlement programs in this year’s package. The GOP strategy instead appears to call for mostly limiting the fast-track package to Homeland Security-related provisions and passing it through Congress by June.
“I am calling for the Bill to be done no later than June 1st, and on my desk,” Trump said in a social media post after meeting with John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican, and Senator Lindsey Graham. “The Department cannot wait any longer for full funding.”. Barrasso called the meeting “productive” and the goal is to get a “focused reconciliation bill that funds ICE and Border Patrol” to Trump’s desk by his deadline.
The bill’s funding would cover the remaining three years of Trump’s term and would first go through the Senate, Graham told Fox News host Bret Baier later Friday.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-senate-gop-agree-on-outline-of-fast-track-spending-bill/ar-AA20C8qM
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EVERY news outlet needs some kind of specialist who is knowledgeable about government functions. But that is at the bottom of their priority list for positions.
I remember back in 2009 - 2010 when Congress was doing the hearings and markups for the ACA, and there were at least 6 Congressional Committees (3 in each Chamber - House and Senate) working on that - each with their own contributory markups of legislation.
But whenever any of the Committees announced where they were so far, the idiot media kept reporting THAT Committee's DRAFT as "the bill", as if it was the "final" one.
I kept yelling at the TV - NO!!!!! It's a DRAFT from ONE COMMITTEE in ONE CHAMBER. 
Once those Committees got their drafts done, THEN EACH Chamber would have to eventually combine them into a single draft for consideration - debate and a vote, and then the Chambers needed to agree on ONE BILL (which they usually do by creating a "Joint Conference Committee with members from both Chambers to agree to one version) for the Congress to finally debate and vote on. Alternately, one Chamber might "take the lead" and get ideas from the other Chamber and incorporate that into what will be a SINGLE bill that will be used for both Chambers to consider/vote on.
It drove me insane. 