Senate Advances $1.4T Spending Deal in Drive to Adjourn

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to advance a $1.4 trillion government spending package in a last, bipartisan burst of legislating before the holidays. The legislation gives President Donald Trump a victory on his U.S.-Mexico border fence and gives Democrats long-sought domestic spending increases and a repeal of Obama-era taxes on high-cost health insurance plans. Thursday’s 72-21 procedural vote foreshadows passage of the two-bill package later Thursday. The compromise bill would forestall a government shutdown this weekend, and Trump is expected to sign it.


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