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On Wednesday, the House passed a $460 billion spending bill that would finance six departments of government, with the majority of Republicans opposed to it.

Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama has been nominated by Republicans to deliver the rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address next week. After serving as a long-serving Alabama senator until the end, Republican Senator Richard Shelby secured her Senate seat in 2022. Britt is the first woman to hold an Alabama Senate seat, and at 42, she is the youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate. After flipping over former Rep. Mo Brooks, who had first endorsed her, Trump had endorsed Britt in his 2022 primary.

Katie Britt, the Senate's youngest Republican woman ever, is recovering from a medical scare that left her face numb. 'I experienced a sudden onset of numbness in my face while visiting my family in Montgomery this weekend,' the 41-year-old freshman senator said in a tweet on Tuesday.' She was admitted to Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama, for examination, where doctors determined that her signs were most likely caused by a facial nerve swelling following a post-viral infection. The condition is non-life threatening, according to Britt, but it could take several weeks for her to recover.'

WALKER: There is a way that this apparently painful exercise in government inefficiency will ultimately resolve one of Washington DC's biggest modern tragedies - its inability to monitor spending. McCarthy has made several compromises to hold out Republicans to date. He has promised to make it easier for rank-and-file Republicans to compel a vote to exclude him, but he has confirmed that a political commission joined by him would not interfere in Republican primary elections. So far, none of these compromises have been enough to persuade a large number of insurgent Republicans to drop their war. McCarthy's biggest issue is the fear that he will not be tough enough on spending, and there's good reason to be concerned.

The 4,500 page bill features classic priorities: $858 billion for defense, $45 billion for Ukraine, $38 billion for emergency response, and billions for other social services, but it also includes some peculiar riders. It's packed with thousands of earmarks - funding for individual legislators' pet programs in return for their vote. Earmarks were banned before Democrats brought them back last year. Republicans followed suit in their own conference. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who helped negotiate the bill with Sen. Feins, is a member of the Democratic House Appropriation Committee. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Pat Leahy, D-Vt., said the funding bill fulfilled 98% of Democratic member requests in the House with $5.4 billion for 3,213 Democratic initiatives.'

About 2 a.m. on Tuesday, negotiators announced the text of the 4,155-page bill, and outraged Senate Republicans are trying to stall it. The party leaders want to move it before a big storm hits. 'The bill is overflowing with good news,' Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer of New York said. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) of Kentucky speculated at the postponement by implying that a clerk would read the entire thing aloud.

Thanks to some year-end law that was officially posted Tuesday morning, Army linebacker Andre Carter II will be eligible for the 2023 NFL draft. Responding to outrage among football fans and other concerned citizens and politicians on Capital Hill, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, which is set to pass this week, will encourage Carter and other current academy upperclassmen from Army, Navy, and Air Force to defer their mandatory military service to pursue pro sports. According to ESPN, the decision was reached after several high-ranking members of Congress, including Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and Richard Shelby, were interested in the issue. "It's not normal for a bill to be announced, and less than ten days later, a bill will be able to pass through the House, Senate, and get a Presidential signature as quickly as possible," a source familiar with the law told ESPN.

Congress is expected to pass a massive year-long spending bill this week, which will apparently include President Biden's Ukraine funding request and a rewritten version of the Electoral Count Act. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., as the vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee, worked out the deal with Democratic chairman Sen. Pat Leahy and House Appropriations Chair Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn, much to his party's ire. According to reports, the omnibus bill, which is expected to cost $1.7 trillion, will include up to $37 billion in Ukraine funding and an extension of the Electoral Count Act, which will change Congress' method for reporting election results.

Top Appropriations Ministers are negotiating a 'omnibus' bill to support the government until the end of the year. Legislators were rushing to find a compromise before government funds ran out at Midnight on Friday, which led to the near-deal. Sen. Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said, 'If all goes well, we should be able to produce an omnibus appropriations bill by Dec. 23.'

On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are attempting to reach an agreement to fund the government as the clock ticks towards Friday's midnight deadline to prevent a shutdown, and bickering may continue well into Christmas. In order to keep the government's lights on, prosecutors will need to pass a shorter resolution before Saturday's deadline, as they seek to have a broader full-year financing agreement. It's unclear how long the shorter term spending bill, also known as a Continuing Resolution (or CR), will be. Legislators could make it as short as a week or prolong it into the new year.

Liz Cheney's 37-point primary loss in Wyoming puts an end to Donald Trump's revenge tour on the ten Republicans who voted to impeach him. Only two people have survived by the skin of their teeth, and for the remainder, it has either ended in disaster or decided to retire rather than re-run, showing that his stronghold on the party is here to stay. In the majority of the cases, the former president has dropped his weight behind the opponents of those who advocated for the investigation into January 6. Cheney lost by 37 points to Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, the fourth worst by an incumbent since 1968. She has risen to become the most prominent House Republican critic of Trump, now serving as vice chair of the House select committee on January 6. But she's paid the highest price out of all her anti-Trump Republicans, but she hasn't paid the highest price. She lost her No. 3 on eBay. 3 positions in the House Republican Conference and was ousted by Wyoming's Republican Party from office.