GOP megabill cutting CFPB funding goes to Trump’s desk

WASHINGTON —  The House narrowly passed a massive tax and spending bill, capping months of deliberations and sending President Trump’s signature legislative priorities to his desk, where he is expected to swiftly sign it, symbolically, on July 4. 

The bill passed in a 218-214 vote, mostly along party lines. Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a fiscal hawk, and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, a vulnerable GOP lawmaker in the midterms, were the only Republican holdouts who voted nay. 

Republicans voted on the bill after all-night deliberations aimed at placating both the party’s fiscal hawks — who complain that the bill will add trillions to the budget in the next decade — and vulnerable Republicans who fear that the bill’s deep cuts to Medicaid will embolden Democratic…