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Also included is another COVID-19 relief “stimulus” package, this one costing taxpayers nearly $1 trillion.
Congressional leaders have the enormous and oftentimes difficult responsibility of choosing the best policy decisions to present to their peers. This is a challenge under normal circumstances even more so when they have to decide on a bundle of policy decisions, and under a tight deadline.
This was abundantly clear with Monday’s appropriations package. While the bill includes some positive provisions, it fails to meet the needs of the country in other significant respects.
Here are nine things you need to know about Monday’s omnibus package, which was passed by the House and Senate.
David Ditch is a research associate specializing in budget and transportation policy in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation.
Congressional leaders introduced on Monday a fiscal year 2021 omnibus appropriations bill that would provide $1.4 trillion in spending for government agencies as well as a variety of unrelated legislative provisions.
Also included is another COVID-19 relief “stimulus” package, this one costing taxpayers nearly $1 trillion.
Congressional leaders have the enormous and oftentimes difficult responsibility of choosing the best policy decisions to present to their peers. This is a challenge under normal circumstances even more so when they have to decide on a bundle of policy decisions, and under a tight deadline.