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| US budget: Funding deal reached to avert shutdown | US budget: Funding deal reached to avert shutdown |
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| Congressional negotiators have reached an agreement on a spending bill to keep the US government running until 30 September, media report. | Congressional negotiators have reached an agreement on a spending bill to keep the US government running until 30 September, media report. |
| The bipartisan deal boosts military spending but does not include funding for President Donald Trump's proposed wall on the Mexico border, they say. | The bipartisan deal boosts military spending but does not include funding for President Donald Trump's proposed wall on the Mexico border, they say. |
| The reported $1 trillion deal (£770bn) needs to be approved by lawmakers. | The reported $1 trillion deal (£770bn) needs to be approved by lawmakers. |
| On Friday Congress approved a stop-gap spending bill that averted a government shutdown at midnight on that day. | On Friday Congress approved a stop-gap spending bill that averted a government shutdown at midnight on that day. |
| That gave Congress one more week to work out federal spending over the last five months of the fiscal year. | That gave Congress one more week to work out federal spending over the last five months of the fiscal year. |
| Lawmakers are expected to vote on the package in the coming days, the Associated Press reports. | |
| The failure to act would have closed national parks and monuments and laid off federal employees. | The failure to act would have closed national parks and monuments and laid off federal employees. |
| The last shutdown, in 2013, lasted for 17 days. | The last shutdown, in 2013, lasted for 17 days. |
| What is at stake? | |
| Details of the agreement on a spending bill are yet to be made public. | |
| However, the Associated Press news agency says it gives President Donald Trump a $15bn down payment on his request to strengthen the military and another $1.5bn for border security. | |
| But White House proposals to cut popular programmes - such as funding medical research and community developments grants - were rejected, according to AP. | |
| There were a number of key disputes during tense negotiations, and Republicans - who control the Congress - were forced to make concessions. | |
| President Trump earlier had to yield to Democratic demands not to include funding for the proposed wall on the US-Mexico border in the spending bill. | |
| Another concession was over Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act. | |
| Mr Trump made scrapping it a key campaign pledge, but divisions among Republicans have so far prevented attempts to get his own health plan through Congress. |