Massive spending bill passed by Congress, sent to Trump December 22, 2020 Congress approved a one-week stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown and to give the president time to sign sweeping budgetary legislation. (Susan Walsh/AP) WASHINGTON Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that would finally deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. Lawmakers tacked on a $1.4 trillion catchall spending bill and thousands of pages of other end-of-session business in a massive bundle of bipartisan legislation as Capitol Hill prepared to close the books on the year. The bill approved Monday night went to President Donald Trump for his signature, which was expected in the coming days.
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test? well, this is about the tenth operational test of this system. as been up for about 10 or 11 years and this is the first time, what s significant about today, is that the u.s. test missile, the one coming in, is an actual icbm, coming in from from the marshal islands in the western pacific. these move very quickly. officials here describing it as hitting a bullet with a bullet. later today out at vandenburg air force base, the gbi, ground based interceptor will come up and try to meet the icbm test. the target is somewhere in the waters north of santa barbara. that s where it s supposed to splash down. the idea to intercept it first and beforehand. hans, three missile tests in the last three weeks, is that right? do we know how many since the beginning of the year an does it seem as if the north koreans are ramping up their frequency with which they re conducting the so-called missile tests? when you do a year on year analysis yes. about a dozen than have taken