House passes pair of funding bills to avert government shutdown

Posted on AllSides December 17th, 2019
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The House has passed a pair of funding measures to avert a government shutdown on Tuesday, voting across party lines detailing roughly $1.4 trillion in government funding ahead of the Friday deadline.

The spending package -- consisting of two separate spending bills and thousands of pages of legislative text -- was introduced on Monday, and includes a boost on domestic spending backed by Democrats while also upping military spending.

It also includes an increase in funding for President Donald Trump's border wall and largely keeps the status quo on the...

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