House sends bipartisan 2-year budget deal to President Trump’s desk

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The House of Representatives early Friday voted to approve a massive, 2-year budget package that also funds the government through March 23, ending a brief government shutdown.

The 240-186 vote sends the $400 billion spending plan to President Donald Trump, who has promised to sign it.

The massive budget deal, which includes a stopgap temporary measure to prevent a government shutdown, includes $300 billion for the military. The agreement also adds $89 billion in overdue disaster aid for hurricane-slammed Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, a politically charged increase in the government's borrowing cap and a grab bag of health and tax provisions.

Passage of the measure came over the opposition of Democratic leaders who demanded the promise of a vote to protect "Dreamer" immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., called the budget plan passed by the Senate a “true compromise.”

“My commitment to working together on an immigration measure that we can make law is a commitment,” he said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., praised the plan in a statement shortly after the vote, writing that, "Funding for education, infrastructure, fighting drug abuse, and medical research will all, for the first time in years, get very significant increases, and we have placed Washington on a path to deliver more help to the middle class in the future.”

Late Thursday, House GOP leaders advised members to prepare for votes "very roughly between" 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Friday.

Trump has been urging Republicans and Democrats to support the Senate bill, tweeting that lawmakers must “must support our troops and support this bill.”

The House Freedom Caucus, the chamber’s fiscally conservative wing, also opposes the bill out of concerns that it would lead to more government spending.
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deficit hawks ( Rand Paul/Freedom caucus) get left behind,as does a DACA vote.

Sequestration of military budget is over