Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 () is a United States omnibus spending bill for the United States federal government for fiscal year 2018 enacted by the 115th United States Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 23, 2018. Legislative history. On the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 was released. The text was posted to the web site of the United States House Committee on Rules at 10:00p.m. H.R. 1625, formerly the TARGET act, was used as a legislative vehicle for the appropriations bill. At 10:15p.m ., the Committee's Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) said he did not have a printout of the bill to consider. The Committee voted 8–3 to allow one hour of debate on the full bill and to disallow all points of order against the motion to add the more than 2,000 pages to the bill. The rule was filed at 1:20a.m. The one hour of debate began at 9:15a.m. Afterwards, James McGovern (D-Massachusetts) advocated to amend the bill further in order to be able to add text to adjust the status of unauthorized immigrants who entered the U.S. as children . The House voted 233–186 to disallow adding any text to the bill other than the more than 2,000 pages proposed the night before. Approximately 17 hours after the 2,232-page bill was released, the House of Representatives passed the bill 256–167 on March 22. That morning, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said, "Is the president going to sign the bill? Yes. Why? Because it funds his priorities." The Senate passed the bill 65–32 after midnight on March 23. The morning of March 23, President Donald Trump said he might veto the bill because it would not fully  fund a planned wall along the Mexico–United States border and would not address the individuals who entered the United States as children and are present in the United States without legal status. President Trump signed the bill later in the day.