Wall Street Journal:Everything you dislike about Congress and more—in 2,727 pages.

The House on Wednesday passed a $1.5 trillion, 2,727-page bill to fund the government this year, and at least the Members don’t have to worry about inflation. They’ve got the government covered.

Perhaps the best that can be said about the spending bill is it could have been worse. Republicans and Democrats agreed to $730 billion in discretionary spending (6.7% increase over last year) and $782 billion for defense (5.6% increase). The bill also includes $13.6 billion in humanitarian and military assistance for Ukraine.

This is better than President Biden’s budget, which sought a 17% increase for non-defense programs and 2% more for defense. Mercifully, the bill doesn’t include $40 billion for the restaurant industry or an extension of the pandemic employee retention tax credit, which many Members of both parties wanted.