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Every member of Alabama’s congressional House delegation voted in favor of legislation that Republicans say will help advance President Donald Trump’s America First agenda. The bill, H.R. 7006, passed the House of Representatives on a 341-79 vote this week and will move to the Senate. This package includes appropriations for several federal departments and agencies related to financial services, general government, national security, the administration of foreign affairs, and foreign assistance. “We negotiated a bill that was a bipartisan compromise. Republicans got some of what they wanted, Democrats got some of what we wanted, and we were able to keep out significantly harmful things that the president wanted, which gets us closer to avoiding another government shutdown in two weeks,” said Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Mobile. Appropriations packages are necessary to fund the government and virtually always receive bipartisan support after negotiations between appropriators. But conservatives tout H.R. 7006 as a potential win that would further the Trump administration’s agenda. Within the package, funding or defunding would be authorized for numerous items including, but not limited to, the following: Read more at the article linked in comments. #alabama #trumpadministration #legislation #americafirst #democrats

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