people were arrested. the yeahs are 56. the nays are 40. the motion to concur is passed. last night the senate passing that $1.1 trillion spending bill. this bill is now headed to the president s desk. aaron mcpike is joining us live in washington. aaron, this bill did not pass all that easily. how did it all go down? well, it did pass with broad bipartisan support, but there was also pretty substantial bipartisan opposition. 21 democrats, 18 republicans, and one independent voted against it, and how they got it done was essentially appeasing ted cruz to some degree. you may remember that mike lee and ted cruz with a pair of junior republican senators who are holding up final passage of the bill on friday night, and they had to go into a long
i have a pistol, and i m armed and ready. same here. absolutely. tonight protect my family. the state bureau of investigations helping in the search. no government shutdown assuming the president signs this big spending bill that is headed his desk. the senate got down to work last night and pass aid $1.1 trillion spending bill, and it keeps the government going until at least september. cnn aaron mcpike has been following every step of the way joining us from washington. aaron, as we have been talking about this bill had some real roadblocks on friday night. how did they get all of it resolved? they did it by appeasing ted cruz and mike lee. those junior republican senators who wanted to get a vote.
fight. if democrats now are voting against this bill, which the president has already urged them to pass, is this going to help or hurt their party, aaron duke? ana, one thing we should point out is the bill is ultimately expect to pass. of course president obama is urging passage. there was question whether or not he would ultimately sign it earlier in the week. now we expect he s very much expected to sign it before he leaves for vacation on friday. he goes to hawaii with his family for a few weeks and we do expect it to pass and it will be signed some time this week. but this does hurt both parties because there has been a lot of complaint from both sides of the aisle. maeve, i want to ask you one last question. and i ll let you also finish aaron s perspective of going to off what she just said. it s really interesting as reported yesterday, this chaos
now senators from both parties are trying to make last changes. here is cnn s aaron mcpike. this, by definition was a compromised bill. president obama acknowledging the new political reality in washington that he has to deal with republicans. this is what is produced when you have the divided government that the american people voted for. had i been able to draft my own legislation and get it passed without any republican votes i suspect it would be slightly different. that is not the circumstance we find ourselves in. i think what the american people are looking for is practical governments and willingness to compromise. that is what this bill reflects. but elizabeth warren, nancy pelosi and other democrats are fuming. there are a bunch of professi provisions in this bill that i do not like. specifically, it dramatically raises the limits that donors
adjourn for the weekend. but forced lawmakers from both parties back to work today. aaron mcpike live at the white house. we heard from a lot of senators last night. what went down? reporter: well mike lee, junior republican senator from utah as well as ted cruz the republican from texas wanted them to guarantee they could get a vote. harry reed said no so there is no unanimous consent so they will with working throughout the day. the conservative republicans really don t like this bill. lots of democrats don t love it either but president obama is still urging the senate to pass it. this by definition was a compromised bill. president obama acknowledging the new political reality in washington, that he has to deal