The effort to pass a budget by an April 8 deadline is getting more complicated by the minute.

While Democrats and Republicans appear to be negotiating a deal to slash $33 billion in spending for the remainder of this fiscal year, the two sides are now stuck on which social policy riders to include in the measure.

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