“The bill ensures taxpayer dollars aren’t used to fund an ineffective border wall, excludes poison-pill riders, and increases investments in programs<br />that the middle-class relies on, like medical research, education and infrastructure.”<br />He added that Democrats had “clearly laid out our principles” early in the debate, and argued that the final measure “reflects those principles.”<br />Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, cheered the deal as a “sharp contrast to President Trump’s dangerous plans to steal billions from lifesaving medical research” and expressed relief<br />that the bill would not pay for an “immoral and unwise border wall or create a cruel new deportation force.”<br />As of late Sunday, neither Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, nor the<br />House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, had issued statements appraising the agreement.<br />Bipartisan Agreement Reached to Fund Government Through September -<br />By THOMAS KAPLAN and MATT FLEGENHEIMERAPRIL 30, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan agreement on Sunday to fund the government through<br />September, effectively ending any suspense about the possibility of a government shutdown next weekend.<br />Though the spending agreement saves the president and congressional Republicans from the specter of a shutdown during a period of one-party<br />rule, it does deprive Mr. Trump of a major victory on the border wall, and Democrats seemed pleased with how they fared.<br />And it leaves the border wall looming as a fight in future spending negotiations, especially if Mr. Trump<br />presses the issue, as he vowed to do during a rally Saturday night to mark his 100th day in office.
