President Donald Trump is halfway home towards cementing the first step of his government spending agenda.
The House passed a continuing resolution (CR) Tuesday to continue current spending levels – with some modifications favored by Republicans – through the end of the fiscal year September 30.
The vote on the relatively clean CR followed a successful procedural vote earlier in the afternoon that cleared the way for passage.
The final tally was 217 to 213. Only one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), opposed the legislation. Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) was the sole Democrat to cross the aisle.
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Conservatives have long loathed CRs, yet Trump not only won them over but enlisted them to publicly advocate for the legislation. Trump’s commitment to enacting spending cuts, made
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