The House is expected to vote later this week on H.R. 7608, a “minibus” bill that covers fiscal year 2021 spending for the departments of Agriculture, Interior, State, Veterans Affairs, and more. That covers four of the 12 spending bills that fund the federal government. The bill’s text produced on July 16 is a staggering 689 pages long, meaning that no representative’s office has had the time to properly vet it before the vote.
Earlier this week a nine-person, majority male Manhattan jury found former Republican president Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing writer and journalist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and for defaming her by claiming she was a liar.