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'I love the president': John Dowd quits as Trump lawyer in Mueller investigation Read more The bill, which passed the House 256-167 on Thursday, funds government agencies through September, the end of the fiscal year, and delivers on a key promise by Donald Trump – to increase military funding – while bypassing much of his immigration agenda. The House vote was not divided along party lines: 145 Republicans and 111 Democrats voted yes while 90 Republicans and 77 Democrats voted no. At least two senators have suggested they may delay proceedings, thereby forcing a brief government shutdown as Senator Rand Paul did in February. Ryan said the bill fulfilled the Trump agenda, especially on increasing military spending and funding for barriers along the border, which he called a wall. “This funds the wall, fixes the military, fights opioids, does the things that we said.” Trump rejected a deal with Democrats that would have protected Dreamers in exchange for $25bn for a border wall. Speaking at the White House, Mick Mulvaney, the head of Office of Management and Budget, insisted Trump supported the bill. The answer is yes,” Mulvaney told reporters. He acknowledged that the omnibus was not ideal and contained compromises, saying: “This is what it looks like when you don’t have 60 votes in the Senate and Democrats get to take their pound of flesh.” Trump said on Twitter. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut said the gun provisions tucked into the budget bill were “small steps” and did little to answer the demands of the student survivors of the Parkland school shooting in Florida last month. “If the small provisions in the budget are all that [Republicans] are willing to do,” said the Connecticut Democrat in a statement, “that would be a tragic insult to all the kids who are rising up across the country demanding that Congress end the gun violence epidemic.”