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In a bipartisan vote on Thursday, the House passed a truly massive omnibus spending bill spanning 2,232 pages and some $1.3 TRILLION. The spending increases the bill called for would help to jack up our already out of control $21 TRILLION national debt. But for both ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News, the bigger concern was that there was no solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News didn’t mention the spending bill at all.
Both ABC and CBS only allowed a single news brief dedicated to the topic, which lasted 23 seconds in both cases.
“Congress has just over 24 hours to avert a government shutdown. Today the House approving a $1.3 trillion in spending, including $1.6 billion for boarding security and fencing. $700 billion for the military, $600 million for election security and $50 million in grants for school safety.” ABC anchor David Muir reported. “Not in the bill, anything about DACA and the dreamers. The Senate now has until midnight tomorrow to approve it.”
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