Dems did the right thinghttps://twitter.com/ngrossman81/status/955629650453155840 …
As best I can tell, it wasn't a big part of discussion. Negotiations ended the shutdown and the whole Senate went to vote on the CR. Burr objected, but removing the provision required unanimous consent and others wouldn't give it. Then they passed the CR to reopen the government.
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How the heck does intel funding get put into the CR? Was that some Republican senator's doing? Was it always there as a provision?
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Reports say the language was added to the House bill at the request of OMB Director Mick Mulvaney. Beyond that, I don't know. I suspect many Members of Congress who voted for the CR decided they were done with the shutdown, and this was the bill on the floor, so they voted yes.
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This sucks.
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