The U.S. Senate has advanced a massive government spending package with bipartisan support. The bill cleared a major hurdle in a 70-25 vote to advance to debate on the Senate floor about the $1.7 trillion spending plan. Within the bill at its core is another aid package for Ukraine in its war with Russia, over $858 billion in defense spending, and another $800 billion in non-defense spending. Both are significant increases from the last fiscal year. Braun was among the 25, many of whom are fiscal conservatives, who voted against advancing the spending package. His qualm with it is that once again he feels lawmakers are getting out of hand with how much the U.S. is spending.
Braun and many other Senate Republicans have been pushing Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell not to go along with the spending bill and to instead push for another stopgap measure in order to wait for Republicans to take over control of the House next year. That hasn’t seemed to be the case since McConnell called the spending bill a victory for Republicans.
