Trump has said he might not be happy with the $1.3 Trillion deal….
But Republicans and Democrats have gone back to before Trump time and worked out compromises…
The agreement provides money for the US government until the fall……
The bill does NOT address the Dreamers issue….
Pasaage needs support from Democratic Senators…
And will pass against protests from conservative Republicans…
Both parties’ negotiators walked away with sales pitches for their rank-and-file after weeks of back-and-forth. Republicans secured an $80 billion annual increase for the Pentagon, its largest in 15 years, with a substantial 2.4 percent pay raise for the troops. Democrats sealed $21 billion for infrastructure projects, as well as hundreds of millions more for election security and FBI efforts to fight Russian cyberattacks.
Democrats successfully beat back the Trump administration’s calls to slash budgets for domestic programs like the college Pell Grants, the Environmental Protection Agency and public housing.
But the bill does follow Trump’s calls to cut deep into foreign aid. It slashes hundreds of millions from the United Nations’ global peacekeeping missions, the United States Agency for International Development and other economic assistance efforts.
Conservatives, meanwhile, blasted the tentative agreement. They complained about requiring lawmakers to quickly vote on a bill that will increase the national debt soon after seeing it.
“Nobody knows what’s in it. I don’t know what’s in the damn thing,” complained Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). “I have no intention of voting for this bill until I know everything that’s in it.”….