Conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus are coming out hard against the top-line spending agreement reached between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the Senate, claiming he sold them out and that the agreement doesn’t go far enough.
The agreement, released Sunday, will provide for the $1.59 trillion number set in the Fiscal Responsibility Act passed last year; this includes $886 billion for defense and $704 billion for nondefense spending.
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