Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
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On Tuesday, the Senate passed a GOP-backed joint budget resolution, the first approved in five years.

Republicans say that the Senate Appropriations Committee will now start to draft spending bills cutting $496 billion in non-defense spending over the next 10 years, The Washington Post reports. The budget framework complies with domestic spending caps included in the 2011 Budget Control Act, commonly referred to as the sequester, and also uses almost $40 billion in off-budget funds to increase defense spending to more than $563 billion.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.