High-stakes vote puts GOP lawmakers at odds with Democrats over cuts to social services and military boosts
House Republicans are gambling on a near party-line vote Tuesday to avoid a looming government shutdown, pushing forward a controversial, Trump-backed funding bill that would slash social programs while boosting defense and border enforcement.
The stopgap bill, unveiled by House Republican leadership over the weekend, would fund the government through September and carves $13bn from non-defense spending while adding $6bn to military budgets and preserving a $20bn IRS funding freeze – priorities embraced by Donald Trump but denounced by Democrats as an assault on vulnerable Americans.