“By increasing resources for Internal Revenue Service, we are helping the agency provide better customer service and crack down on big corporations and the wealthy who are not paying their fair share in taxes.”
“I am also particularly proud of strong funding increases to help underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses access capital and contracting opportunities. With these resources and funding to protect the integrity of our elections, we are safeguarding our democracy, growing our economy, and investing in the programs that matter most to working families.”
provide some funding for election security grants and for gun violence research. so some things that both sides can be happy about. there was a dispute about language that house democrats wanted to include in the bill to force the white house to adhere to a strict timeline in terms of releasing security assistance to ukraine. white house officials were able to successfully negotiate that out of the spending bill. sara westwood, thank you. let s bring in margaret in axios. welcome back. good morning, victor. how are you? i m well. hope you are, too. leader mcconnell on thursday said that he s not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending the senate something that they do not want. his play here, i mean, he ignored a supreme court nominee for almost a year for the rest of a term. holidays now have come upon the
5:51 eastern time, and the house has approved a nearly $1.4 trillion spending bill next door to avert a government shutdown. it includes a pay raise for military and civilian federal workers, funding for election security grants and gun research and repeals three taxes that help pay for obamacare. it s far less than the white house was seeking. the measure still needs to clear the senate, and president trump must sign it before federal spending expires on friday. for the first time in more than two decades, congress is allocating money to spend on gun violence. half of the money will go to the cdc. the other half is ear marked for the national institutes of health. a democratic congresswoman of new york led.