it will prevent a government shut down but may deepen hit party s bitter divide and the toxic infighting that awaits his successor. ma knew nu new rnu ju with more the bill they released last night raises the national debt limit until march 2017. and assuming this passes it takes that big fiscal fight off the table in an election year. and in addition it raises domestic and defense spending to the tune of $80 billion in effort to relieve some of the pain felt by the across the board cuts, knowns a sequestration. it makes other moderate changes. this is being done in john boehner s final days in office. what he wants to do is really clear the decks for his likely
of this measure. democratic leaders and the white house are backing this plan. you are probably going to see a lot of republicans who are supportive particularly those defense hawks because of the increased spending and helping the pentagon. folks on the republican defense hawks are worried if this does not go through that the national security programs will be hit particularly hard and there needs to be that increased spending. so there will be divisions within the republican conference but probably not support with democrats to carry this over the finish line. that deal is expected to win over support from both sides of the aisle because of the $80 billion boost to domestic and defense spending. many say the pentagon needs more resources to fight terror and cyber security and the emerging threat of china. and in fact right now tensions are rising after a u.s. navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island in the disputed waters of the south china sea.