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WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate passed a trio of government funding bills Wednesday with broad bipartisan support, a move that some senators hope will pressure the Republican-controlled House to change course from its partisan approach. The Senate voted 82-15 to approve funding bills covering military construction and veterans affairs, transportation and housing, and agriculture. The vote breaks a lengthy logjam on government funding ahead of a Nov. 17 deadline to avert a shutdown.
, said moving up that spending cut would be “ill-conceived” as it “punishes the Defense Department and increases non-defense spending — which is absolutely a-- backwards.” But other conservatives, like Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., say the 1% cut is fine and, if anything, Congress should cut deeper into the federal budget. “It’s a tiny, tiny cut. People talk about it being a big deal. The people who believe in really big government,” Paul said.
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