UTV | US – US budget hawks have labelled a plan to hike defence and domestic spending by hundreds of billions of dollars as a debt-ballooning “monstrosity”.
In a rare show of bipartisanship, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic counterpart Chuck Schumer agreed the two-year pact.
The bill is expected to clear the Senate comfortably, but face opposition in the House of Representatives.
It comes on the eve of a deadline to avert another government shutdown.
Congress has to reach a deal before government funding runs out at midnight on Thursday, when a one-month spending bill is set to expire.
Both Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives have voiced disapproval of the bipartisan bill.
