Ideologues feel, ‘good enough for them to freeze their salaries.’ For other members it’s just not an issue, because it’s just not something that’s talked about in their districts. "We love and need our Military and gave them everything — and more. Paul amendment holds up Senate vote

Paul took to the Senate floor many times Thursday refusing to agree to move up the time for a vote in the chamber on the bill, which requires unanimous consent from all 100 senators. Also means JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” Donald Trump wrote Friday morning on Twitter. Donald Trump wrote Friday morning on Twitter.The legislative package assigns budget figures for the next two fiscal years but only funds the government until March 23. Going into Thursday, congressional leaders appeared confident that the agreement to lift spending caps and fund the government through March 23 would help them avoid a second shutdown in less than a month, but Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., delayed the effort past a midnight deadline in the Senate by repeatedly objecting to requests to schedule a vote on the sweeping budget deal. Lawmakers still need to work out a bipartisan spending plan covering the remainder of the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30.While praising the military spending, Trump lamented that Republicans were forced to compromise due to their slim majority in the Senate, where the GOP holds 51 seats and the Democrats 49.Until Trump signed the bill, which the Senate passed with a vote of 71-28 and the House of Representatives approved by a count of 240-186, federal agencies were technically without funding.The bill passed in the House thanks to the support of 73 Democrats and despite opposition from 67 Republican deficit-hawks.The Senate and House eventually approved the package early Friday after Republican Sen. Rand Paul from Kentucky had filibustered the vote on Thursday.The libertarian-leaning lawmaker said GOP lawmakers who had railed against deficit spending under former President Barack Obama , a Democrat, suddenly were willing to increase spending by hundreds of billions of dollars now that a Republican is office.He said their actions amounted to rank hypocrisy.The funding and budget bill includes around $300 billion in extra spending for both military programs and domestic non-military programs such as health, infrastructure and disaster relief.It also suspends the federal debt ceiling through March 1, 2019.But it does not include any solution for the so-called "Dreamers," hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants who were brought to the US as children. The new bill raises the caps by $143 billion for fiscal year 2018 and by $153 billion in 2019, while also providing $6 billion to combat the opioid epidemic and fund mental health programs, $4 billion for veterans’ health care initiatives and $20 billion for infrastructure projects.
A comprehensive budget deal is later passed by Congress in the early hours of the morning, and a Continuing Resolution is signed into law by President Trump that keeps the government open until March 23, 2018.