Democrats scheming the House muscled through legislation Wednesday night that would coagulate the budgets of most Cabinet departments and fund the war in Afghanistan for another year.
The bill would cap the agencies' annual operating budgets at the $1.2 trillion permitted for the freshly completed budget year — a $46 billion cut of more than 3 percent from President Barack Obama's request.
It includes $159 billion to act against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq next year.
The 423-page calculates, opposed by Republicans, conventional Democrats and some anti-war lawmakers, barely passed by a 212-206 vote. The budget-freeze bill wraps a dozen uncompleted spending bills into a single determine.
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