What in this $1.5T do we really need?

One thing, we need to keep the government from shutting down Friday, that’s it. Nothing else!

Congress’ incompetence and dereliction of duty has put us in this position, time and time again. They need to do a real annual budget, but haven’t for two decades. Their failure does not create a fake emergency so they can spend trillions of dollars of special projects (142 earmarked for Schumer alone).

We don’t need more COVID, IRS, green energy, and abortion spending in a 2,700 page bill to stop a government shutdown. This is a one pager, period! In this inflationary time the last thing we need is more frivolous spending and money printing in the financial system.

Unfortunately all we have left is to do another ‘continuing resolution’. If done right it would include a commitment to pass a budget by June. But, the Democrats control congress and no way they would make that responsible commitment. And, many Republicans wouldn’t either. That level of incompetence is why we are here.

To the United States Senate, which only means liberal Republicans, Manchin & Sinema, don’t get sucked in by the Ukraine slight of hand, say no to this monstrosity.

The House passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill that includes emergency aid for Ukraine, after Democratic leaders stripped out a contentious Covid-19 aid provision that would have clawed back states’ unused coronavirus money to fund the proposal.

The decision to remove the $15.6 billion in Covid-19 aid was a dramatic setback for both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), who negotiated the plan only to see many rank-and-file Democrats reject it, and President Biden, whose administration originally asked for $22.5 billion to fund vaccines, treatments and research and now will get nothing.

Lawmakers released the more than 2,700-page omnibus spending package early on Wednesday, giving lawmakers just hours to read it. To pass the House, leadership divided the bill into two parts: The defense portion of the bill passed in a 361-69 vote, and the nondefense portion of the bill passed in a 260-171 vote. The bill now heads to the Senate.

More From The Wall Street Journal (subscription required):