Patty Murray on Bipartisan Cooperation for Funding Bills

Bipartisan Compromise on Funding Bills

• 🤝 Bipartisan cooperation has led to two compromise bills that reject harmful cuts proposed by Trump and House Republicans.
• 💡 These bills maintain crucial programs that provide essential services like housing, transportation, and clean air and water for constituents.

Interior Bill Investments

• 🏞️ The Interior bill includes protections for public lands and national parks.
• 🔥 It invests in fighting wildfires and upholding obligations to tribes.
• 🌍 Critical work protecting the environment and families is also funded.

THUD Bill Investments

• 🏠 The THUD bill addresses the housing crisis and rejects deep cuts to rental assistance programs.
• ✈️ It invests in transportation infrastructure, including a significant increase in hiring air traffic controllers.

The Value of Bipartisan Process

• 🎯 The passage of these bills demonstrates the possibility of working together and highlights why a bipartisan process is superior to partisan approaches.
• 🚫 It rejects a partisan vision that could hurt working families and lead to harmful cuts and policies.

Challenges and Future Work

• 🚧 Passing funding bills in the Senate requires 60 votes, making partisan paths a dead end that could lead to a shutdown.
• 🤔 Compromise involves hard work and hard choices, requiring trust, which the speaker hopes can be rebuilt.