The massive $1.1 trillion spending bill filed in the House on Monday night.<\/p>\n
US congressional lawmakers have reached an agreement on a $1.1 trillion spending bill that will finance the government through September. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The hefty bill filed in the House on Monday night.<\/p>\n The White House and leaders of both parties praised the measure, which would end the lingering threat of a government shutdown when the current funding bill expires at midnight Wednesday. <\/p>\n \u00c5\u201cThe bipartisan appropriations bill represents a positive step forward for the nation and our economy,\u201d White House budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in a statement.<\/p>\n The bill would leave agency budgets billions of dollars lower than President Obama had requested and congressional Democrats had sought. <\/p>\n The massive bill reverses some cuts to military veterans\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 pensions that were included in a broader budget agreement last month and defeats efforts to rein in President Obama\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s healthcare law. <\/p>\n It also neutralized almost all of the 134 policy provisions that House Republicans had hoped to include, with negotiators opting for cooperation over confrontation after the 16-day government shutdown in October, according to The New York Times. <\/p>\n The newspaper said measures to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s ability to regulate greenhouse gases and reverse clean water regulations did not survive the final negotiations.<\/p>\n Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, said, \u00c5\u201cThis is $164 billion less than Bush\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s last discretionary budget, so that\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s pretty good progress in cutting spending.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00c5\u201cCompared to the sequester, this is obviously a big improvement. But compared to investments we should be making, it falls far short,\u201d said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee. The measure proves that \u00c5\u201cthis notion that the federal government is on a spending binge is just nonsense,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n According to the US Treasury data, for all of 2013, the nation\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s budget deficit was $560.5 billion. <\/p>\n ARA\/ARA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n