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Democrats get Boost from Election Wins Across US

Virginia Gov.-elect, Ralph Northam gestures during a news conference at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Northam defeated Republican
Ed Gillespie in Tuesday’s election.
(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
By STEVE PEOPLES of the young Trump era — can “smell a wave com- gency for the GOP to fulfill and now are straining to
Associated Press mark the beginning of an ing.” Not so fast, Republi- its list of campaign prom- approve a far-reaching tax
NEW YORK (AP) — Jubilant anti-Trump surge that could cans said Wednesday. But ises before voters head overhaul despite control-
Democrats across Ameri- re-shape the balance of they acknowledged that back to the polls next year. ling the White House and
ca are declaring their big power in Congress in 2018. setbacks in Virginia, New They, along with President both houses of Congress.
election victories in Virginia Senate Democratic leader Jersey and elsewhere on Donald Trump, have failed
and New Jersey — their first Chuck Schumer says he Tuesday created new ur- to demolish “Obamacare” Continued on Page 3

House, Senate negotiators agree on $700 billion for Pentagon

By RICHARD LARDNER ers aim to restock what Armed Services commit- publican defense hawks Iraq and Afghanistan.
Associated Press they say is a depleted U.S. tees. The funding boost in particular were surprised Yet the lawmakers push-
WASHINGTON (AP) — military. pays for more troops, jet the president didn’t seek ing the hardest for the big
House and Senate nego- The bill allots just over $634 fighters, ships and other more given his bullish cam- increase still face an uphill
tiators have agreed on billion for core Pentagon weapons the bill’s back- paign talk about rebuild- battle. For the billions of
an annual defense policy operations and nearly $66 ers said are needed to halt ing the armed forces. But additional dollars to actu-
bill that authorizes $700 billion for wartime missions an erosion of the military’s they kept their criticisms ally materialize, Congress
billion for the Pentagon in in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria combat readiness. largely to themselves as first will have to agree to
the 2018 fiscal year, a dra- and elsewhere, according Trump’s 2018 request they set about boosting roll back a 2011 law that
matic increase over the to summaries of the legisla- sought $603 billion for ba- the Pentagon’s budget to set strict limits on most
amount President Donald tion released Wednesday sic functions and $65 billion a level higher than at any federal spending. But that
Trump sought as lawmak- by the House and Senate for overseas missions. Re- point during the wars in won’t be easy. q