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Senate agrees on new spending plan, green-lights defense hikes through next two years


Republican and Democratic Senate leaders reached an agreement Wednesday that includes a boost in spending for the Pentagon and would keep the government running past a looming deadline. The House of Representatives on Tuesday night approved the spending bill and bolster defense funding.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California had announced she would oppose the budget measure unless her chamber's GOP leaders promised a vote on legislation to protect "Dreamer" immigrants. The agreement, though, does not tackle immigration -- at a time when Congress is debating how to address those affected by the looming expiration of former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. President Trump had refused to make DACA a part of any budget deal and finally Democrats caved angering Pelosi and Dreamers who have threatened to take matters into their own hands to get justice.

It may be that Dems think their best strategy is to leave the DACA stuff undone.