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- Senate leaders agreed to a massive two-year budget deal on Wednesday.
- Some House Democrats don’t like it because it does not include a solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program.
- Some House Republicans don’t like it because of its large increase in federal spending and its potential effects on the deficit and debt.
Senate leaders announced an agreement on a massive two-year bipartisan budget deal on Wednesday, but the agreement came under almost immediate fire from nearly every corner of both political parties.
Both House Republicans and Democrats bristled at the deal — for vastly different reasons — as Congress works to avert a second government shutdown in less than a month by a Friday deadline.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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