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Congress Passes Plan to Keep the Government Open Until December

Congress Passes Plan to Keep the Government Open Until December

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President Trump signed an eight hundred fifty billion dollar spending plan on Friday, which will keep the federal government operating through early December.

He has earlier said he supported a government shutdown in an effort to force financing for the Mexican border wall.

South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says Congress went in a different direction…

Rounds says the budget should have been finished earlier….

Rounds says much of the security funding will have to be finished after the midterm elections…

The plan includes almost seven hundred billion dollars in defense spending, plus money for Health and Human Services, Education and the Labor department.

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