Con­gress ap­proves gov­ern­ment spend­ing bill with in­creased FDA fund­ing

The Sen­ate ear­ly Fri­day fol­lowed the House’s lead ear­ly Fri­day to pass the $1.3 tril­lion spend­ing bill to fund the gov­ern­ment through 30 Sep­tem­ber.

The White House had in­di­cat­ed that Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump sup­ports the bill, but he doesn’t seem so cer­tain:

I am con­sid­er­ing a VE­TO of the Om­nibus Spend­ing Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DA­CA re­cip­i­ents have been to­tal­ly aban­doned by the De­moc­rats (not even men­tioned in Bill) and the BOR­DER WALL, which is des­per­ate­ly need­ed for our Na­tion­al De­fense, is not ful­ly fund­ed.

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