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US House panel unveils $95 billion plan to fund defense and parts of Trump's voter ID bill
The plan would fund defense tied to the Iran war, farm aid and election grants without offsets, raising deficit concerns among conservatives.
- On Wednesday, House Republicans unveiled a roughly $95 billion budget resolution to fund defense, agriculture aid, and voter identification requirements, initiating a complex legislative process to bundle these priorities into a single party-line bill.
- Fulfilling a request from President Donald Trump, the resolution supplements Pentagon funding for the Iran war while advancing his priority of changing voter registration requirements through the reconciliation process.
- Allocations include up to $60 billion for the Defense Department, $12 billion for farm aid, and $10 billion each for election grants and intelligence, though the plan adds the total cost to the national deficit without offsets.
- House Budget Committee ranking member Brendan Boyle vowed to "fight like hell" against the plan, as some Republicans remain uneasy about the strategy and the potential for a ballooning national deficit.
- The House Budget Committee will debate the resolution Thursday, with floor votes expected as soon as next week, though Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned that healthcare program cuts could trigger "a lot of very challenging amendment votes.
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In the run-up to the mid-term elections, the Republicans of the House of Representatives presented a broad budget project focusing on defence, agriculture and electoral integrity.
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A committee of the United States House of Representatives, controlled by the Republican Party, presented on Wednesday a budget plan of $95 billion for a new spending package that includes $73 billion in new resources, distributed over ten years, for defense and intelligence operations.
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