Trump, Senate GOP agree on frame of fast-track spending bill [View all]

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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump and top Senate Republicans agreed Friday to the outline of a partisan fast-track spending bill aimed at bypassing minority Democrats and focused on providing funding for immigration enforcement and the US Border Patrol.

The president and party leaders are pushing back against efforts by some rank-and-file GOP lawmakers to include new tax cuts and additional rollbacks in health care and other entitlement programs in this year’s package. The GOP strategy instead appears to call for mostly limiting the fast-track package to Homeland Security-related provisions and passing it through Congress by June.

“I am calling for the Bill to be done no later than June 1st, and on my desk,” Trump said in a social media post after meeting with John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican, and Senator Lindsey Graham. “The Department cannot wait any longer for full funding.”. Barrasso called the meeting “productive” and the goal is to get a “focused reconciliation bill that funds ICE and Border Patrol” to Trump’s desk by his deadline.

The bill’s funding would cover the remaining three years of Trump’s term and would first go through the Senate, Graham told Fox News host Bret Baier later Friday.

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