The 1.4 Trillion dollar bill is the general government funding bill for the next year. If that bill didn't pass by I believe Friday, we would head into a government shutdown, where non-essential government entities close and those that are essential operate but don't pay their people. Shutdowns have happened before and there seems to be one every few years, but to avoid a shutdown and get a covid bill passed Congress decided to attach the Covid bill to the "omnibus" bill, which is a collection of bills that funds the government for the next year.
They were able to ram through so much extra garbage in the general government spending bill because the general government spending bill was tied to the Covid relief bill.
The 1.4 Trillion dollar bill is the general government funding bill for the next year. If that bill didn't pass by I believe Friday, we would head into a government shutdown, where non-essential government entities close and those that are essential operate but don't pay their people. Shutdowns have happened before and there seems to be one every few years, but to avoid a shutdown and get a covid bill passed Congress decided to attach the Covid bill to the "omnibus" bill, which is a collection of bills that funds the government for the next year.
They were able to ram through so much extra garbage in the general government spending bill because the general government spending bill was tied to the Covid relief bill.