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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. The House has narrowly approved a multi-trillion

dollar budget blueprint that Republicans say will advance President Trump's legislative priorities.

The vote was 217 to 215 with one GOP lawmakers siding with Democrats in opposition, Thomas Massey of Kentucky.

The budget measure calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and spending cuts of $2 trillion.

Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson.

We have a lot of hard work ahead of us, but we are going to deliver the American First

Agenda.

We're going to deliver all of it, not just parts of it, and this was the first step in that process.

The measure includes more than $100 billion in new spending for immigration enforcement and the Pentagon.

President Trump has signed a memo that suspends the security clearances held by lawyers at a law firm that provided legal

representation to former special counsel Jack Smith. As NPR's Ryan Lucas reports, the president's

action is the latest to take aim at Smith and his team of federal prosecutors who investigated

Trump. In a memorandum, Trump directed the Attorney General and the heads of

other agencies to suspend any active security clearances held by attorneys at the law firm of Covington

and Burling, who provided legal services to Jack Smith. Trump also ordered a review of all government

contracts with the firm. In a statement, Covington said it recently agreed to represent

Smith when it appeared that he would face a government investigation and that it looks forward to

defending him. The firm, which represent Smith on a pro bono basis, had no role in Smith's investigation

of Trump and has no contracts with the federal government, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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