Congress has cleared the first major hurdle in their efforts to pass a sweeping party-line bill to enact President Donald Trump's agenda. Now the work begins. The resolution approved Thursday in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives outlines how much lawmakers can spend and how much they must cut spending in the final package.

The US House of Representatives has passed a budget bill that includes massive cuts to taxes and government spending on Thursday despite opposition from Democrats and Republican hard-liners. The spending plan is a key plank in Donald Trump's legislative agenda and he has called it a "big,