{"id":27494,"date":"2018-02-09T02:49:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T01:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/09\/congress-rushes-again-to-pass-budget-deal-amid-fresh-bipartisan-opposition\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T02:49:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T01:49:45","slug":"congress-rushes-again-to-pass-budget-deal-amid-fresh-bipartisan-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=27494","title":{"rendered":"Congress rushes again to pass budget deal amid fresh bipartisan opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plan to avert shutdown would raise defense and non-defense spending by $300bn but doesn\u2019t resolve the immigration reform issueCongressional leaders were rushing on Thursday to pass a far-reaching, bipartisan budget deal that would raise federal spending levels for the next two years as lawmakers run up against yet another midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown.As Congress worked to find the votes amid a last minute objection from a conservative senator, White House Office of Management and Budget spokesman John Czwartacki said \u201cagencies are now being urged to review and prepare for lapse\u201d in spending after midnight. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/08\/congress-rushes-again-to-pass-budget-deal-amid-fresh-bipartisan-opposition\" target=\"_blank\">Congress rushes again to pass budget deal amid fresh bipartisan opposition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan to avert shutdown would raise defense and non-defense spending by $300bn but doesn\u2019t resolve the immigration reform issueCongressional leaders were rushing on Thursday to pass a far-reaching, bipartisan budget deal that would raise federal spending levels for the next two years as lawmakers run up against yet another midnight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}