With the House having passed its final batch of appropriations bills, it is now up to the Senate to pass the spending package or risk sending the federal government into a partial shutdown.

Despite the pressure to keep the government open, however, a significant number of Senate Democrats and Republicans have complaints about the spending bills.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., one of the eight Democrats who voted to reopen the government after the longest-ever shutdown in November, signaled his opposition to the spending package as a whole.

“If the Senate were to vote on these appropriations bills individually, I would support some of them,” Kaine wrote. “But the House is bundling six bills into a single package a week before a budget deadline and skipping town to try and jam senators into a single up or down vote.”

Tim Kaine will oppose the funding package next week due in part to the DHS funding bill & concerns about ICE.

Notable because Kaine was one of the eight Senate Dems who voted with R’s to reopen the gov’t back in November pic.twitter.com/tkon3fUshT

Kaine refers to the House Republicans’ use of procedural mechanisms........

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