High-stakes vote puts GOP lawmakers at odds with Democrats over cuts to social services and military boosts<\/p>\n
House Republicans<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n 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 \u2013 priorities embraced by Donald Trump<\/a> but denounced by Democrats as an assault on vulnerable Americans.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … 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-35724","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\/35724","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=35724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}