The House of Representatives has approved a short-term spending bill to keep the government funded through the end of September. One Democrat–Rep. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine–voted with 216 Republicans to approve the bill, which looks to slash $13 billion in nonmilitary spending, while boosting funds for veterans’ healthcare and the Pentagon. Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries condemned the spending bill, saying it “rips away life-sustaining healthcare and retirement benefits from everyday Americans.”
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “It’s all part of a broader scheme to pass massive tax cuts for billionaire donors, the wealthy, the well-off and the well-connected, and then to stick working-class Americans with the bill — this entire scheme. And as Democrats, we want no part of it.”
The bill now moves to the Senate, where it would need the support of at least seven members of the Democratic Caucus to pass. Without a continuing resolution, the government is poised to run out of money by the end of the day Friday.