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Friday 23 March 2018
House OKs compromise $1.3 trillion budget bill, Senate next
By ANDREW TAYLOR negotiators released it pub- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to the Senate floor for a vote with accompanying reporters, on Capi-
LISA MASCARO licly. tol Hill in Washington. As the Senate gets closer to another government funding deadline, Paul is
Associated Press The next step was Senate protesting the pending $1.3 trillion spending bill, which he has called "budget-busting."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The passage, which was as-
House easily approved sured. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
a bipartisan $1.3 trillion But it was possible some Re-
spending bill Thursday publican senators critical Ryan, R-Wis. research, child care and around when the young
that pours huge sums into of the bill's spending could
Pentagon programs and delay its approval until af- Democrats touted spend- infrastructure projects. people come to town," Pe-
domestic initiatives rang- ter midnight Friday night. If
ing from building roads to that occurred, that would ing boosts on biomedical "They just don't want to be losi said.q
combatting the nation's prompt the year's third fed-
opioid abuse crisis, but left eral shutdown, an event
Congress in stalemate over that was sure to be brief
shielding young Dreamer but would still embarrass
immigrants from deporta- a GOP that controls the
tion and curbing surging White House and Congress.
health insurance premiums. The White House said Presi-
The vote was 256-167, a dent Donald Trump sup-
one-sided tally that un- ported the legislation,
derscored the popularity even though he tweeted
of a budget deal among Wednesday that he "had
party leaders that provid- to waste money on Dem
ed enough money to ad- giveaways" on domestic
dress many of both sides' programs to win increases
priorities. Further highlight- for the military.
ing how eager lawmakers Congressional Republicans
were to claim victories, the focused on the bill's de-
House approved the 2,232- fense increases.
page package — which "Vote yes for our military.
stood around a foot tall Vote yes for the safety and
on some legislators' desks the security of this country,"
— less than 17 hours after said House Speaker Paul
McMaster out, Bolton in as Trump's national security adviser
Continued from Front Ronald Reagan, George tween Trump and McMas- Democrats and Hillary Clin- mer, he was the target of a
The White House said Mc- H.W. Bush and George W. ter has grown increasingly ton. far-right attack campaign,
Master's exit had been Bush, and served as a Bush public. Last month, Trump Tillerson's exit also forecast as conservative groups
under discussion for some lawyer during the 2000 Flor- took issue with McMaster's trouble for McMaster, who and a website tied to for-
time and stressed it was not ida recount. characterization of Russian had aligned himself with mer Trump adviser Steve
due to any one incident. A strong supporter of the meddling in the 2016 elec- the embattled secretary of Bannon targeted him as in-
Bolton, probably the most Iraq war and an advo- tion after the national secu- state in seeking to soften sufficiently supportive of Is-
divisive foreign policy ex- cate for aggressive use of rity adviser told the Munich some of Trump's most dra- rael and not tough enough
pert ever to serve as U.N. American power in foreign Security Summit that inter- matic foreign policy im- on Iran.
ambassador, has served as policy, Bolton was unable ference was beyond dis- pulses. McMaster was brought in
a hawkish voice in Repub- to win Senate confirmation pute. "General McMaster McMaster told The New after Trump's first national
lican foreign policy circles after his nomination to the forgot to say that the results York Times last year that security adviser, Michael
for decades. He met with U.N. post alienated many of the 2016 election were Trump's unorthodox ap- Flynn, was dismissed after
Trump and White House Democrats and even some not impacted or changed proach "has moved a lot of less than a month in office.
chief of staff John Kelly Republicans. He resigned by the Russians and that us out of our comfort zone, White House officials said
in early March to discuss after serving 17 months as the only Collusion was be- me included." he was ousted because
North Korea and Iran. He a Bush "recess appoint- tween Russia and Crooked The military strategist, who he did not tell top advisers,
was spotted entering the ment," which allowed him H, the DNC and the Dems," joined the administration including Vice President
West Wing earlier Thursday. to hold the job on a tem- Trump tweeted Feb. 17, al- in February 2017, has strug- Mike Pence, about the full
Bolton has served in the Re- porary basis without Senate luding to frequent GOP al- gled to navigate a tumultu- extent of his contacts with
publican administrations of confirmation. Tension be- legations of impropriety by ous White House. Last sum- Russian officials.q
