Adjustments would include slimming down social and climate change programs in order to cut the package’s $3.5 trillion price tag down to about $2 trillion.
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The government will now be funded through Dec. 3 as Congress averts a crisis, but the larger issue of increasing the borrowing limit remains unresolved.
The renewed push is the latest effort by Democrats – and some Republicans – who have repeatedly tried, and failed, to pass tougher gun control laws since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.