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Protect State Department funding, key lawmakers say
The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is urging House appropriators to fund the State Department for 2018 at least as much as they did for 2017.
By Joe Gould
Full FY18 defense budget at center of latest government shutdown threat
Republicans want a full year of defense spending but only four weeks of funding for other government programs. Democrats are opposed.
US House approves security spending bill with $1.6B for Trump border wall
The House on Thursday passed a four-bill, $789.6 billion federal spending package that sets up a showdown in the Senate over its inclusion of border wall funding and because it tops defense budget caps by $63.5 billion.
By Joe Gould