After Striking Short-Term Deal, House Approves Funding for Rest of Fiscal 2018

The House on Thursday approved a bill to set fiscal 2018 spending levels at agencies across federal government, rounding out its appropriations work for the coming year. The measure, approved with almost exclusively Republican support, comes just days after President Trump struck a deal with congressional Democrats to fund government at current levels through Dec. 8. The House bill would set funding through Sept. 30, 2018, for agencies related to agriculture; commerce, justice and science; financial services and general government; homeland security; interior; labor, health and human services and education; state and foreign operations; and transportation, housing and urban development.