The House passed a $1.37 trillion spending package that includes money for the border wall, funding for gun violence research and increasing the age for purchasing tobacco products.
The Tuesday approval could avert a government shutdown that would begin Friday. The package will now go to the Senate for approval before being sent to Trump for his signature.
Trump has yet to weigh in on the spending deal, reached after months of tedious discussions between top House and Senate leaders. Trump and Congress are wary of another government stoppage after last year's 35-day shutdown over disagreements on the president's desire to build a wall along the southern U.S. border.The spending deal leaves funding for the wall, one of the president's key campaign promises, unchanged from $1.
The deal offered something forboth Democrats and Republicans to vote for, with liberals securing a 3.1-percent raise for federal workers, upgrades to election systems and $25 million in gun violence research after decades of the gun lobby working against it.
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