House passes bill to avoid Friday shutdown, sends it to the Senate

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The House passed legislation Tuesday to temporarily fund the government into late March, and provide full-year funding for the military.

But the spending battle isn’t over, as the GOP bill passed along party lines, and now heads to the Senate, where lawmakers will likely reject it in favor of a bipartisan deal to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, and lift mandatory spending caps for two years.

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