{"id":35481,"date":"2025-03-08T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/house-republicans-unveil-spending-bill-boosting-defense-and-trimming-all-else\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:00:42","slug":"house-republicans-unveil-spending-bill-boosting-defense-and-trimming-all-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/house-republicans-unveil-spending-bill-boosting-defense-and-trimming-all-else\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans unveil spending bill boosting defense and trimming all else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy is not likely to earn Democrats\u2019 votes, so Trump is leaning on Republicans to force it through<\/p>\n<p>US House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through 30 September, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major confrontation with Democrats over the contours of government spending.<\/p>\n<p>The 99-page bill would provide a slight boost to defense programs while trimming non-defense programs below 2024 budget year levels. That approach is likely to be a non-starter for most Democrats who have long insisted that defense and non-defense spending move in the same direction.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/08\/house-republicans-spending-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy is not likely to earn Democrats\u2019 votes, so Trump is leaning on Republicans to force it through US House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through 30 September, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major confrontation with Democrats over the contours of &#8230; <a title=\"House Republicans unveil spending bill boosting defense and trimming all else\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/house-republicans-unveil-spending-bill-boosting-defense-and-trimming-all-else\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about House Republicans unveil spending bill boosting defense and trimming all else\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}