Thread: Congress Passes Republican One Week Stopgap US Budget Measur

Congress Passes Republican One Week Stopgap US Budget Measure, Obama Veto Next

Submitted by Tyler Durden
04/07/2011 14:37 -0400
117 comments

Flashing headline that Congress has passed the stopgap budget measure. This is not a surprise. What will be a surprise is if the measure first passes the Senate (and they better move quick: 26 hours or so left), and then Obama has to not veto it. Which he has said he will. In other words this is a major non-event for the time being.

From Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-0 ... -veto.html

The measure, passed 247-181, would cut another $12 billion in spending this year and fund the Pentagon at current levels through Sept. 30. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, called the bill a “non-starter.â€

Damn week kneeded Republicans!