Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanRyan, McConnell brought props to meeting to talk Trump out of government shutdown: report Mother used in ad attacking Kansas Dem candidate is state GOP official Overnight Defense: Trump said to extend Syria strategy | Mattis pushes Taliban talks during Afghanistan visit | Trump says he 'most likely' won't shut down government MORE (R-Wis.) announced to the House Republican Conference on Tuesday night that leaders have reached a sweeping year-end deal on taxes and funding the government after days of intense negotiations. 
 
 The full text of the 2009-page omnibus bill was posted online early Wednesday morning at about 1:30 a.m. 
 
 The delayed posting of the omnibus text means that in order to adhere to the so-called three-day rule, House GOP leaders will have to wait until Friday to hold a vote on the legislation. 
 
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 Lawmakers had exited a Tuesday night House GOP conference meeting with the expectation of voting Thursday on the spending package. But Ryan is unlikely to want to waive the self-imposed rule less than two months into his Speakership on such a massive bill, meaning the vote will likely slip to Friday. 
 
 In the meantime, the House and Senate are expected to easily clear another stopgap measure to keep the government funded through Dec. 22. Current funding expires Wednesday night. 
 
 Ryan unveiled the details of the agreement while the political world was fixated on the fifth GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas. 
 
 He told colleagues that the spending bill will postpone the "Cadillac tax" on expensive healthcare plans and the tax package will place a two-year moratorium on the medical device tax, two critical sources of revenue for ObamaCare. 
 
 The Speaker told rank-and-file Republicans that they won more victories in the tax package than in the $1.15 trillion omnibus funding bill, which has been largely stripped of the policy amendments that Republicans wanted, according to a GOP lawmaker in the room. 
 
 Rep. Kevin Brady Kevin Patrick BradyDems vow to grab Trump tax returns upon taking majority Overnight Health Care: Kavanaugh questioned if Roe v. Wade was 'settled law' in leaked email | Senate to vote next week on opioid package | Officials seek to jail migrant children indefinitely | HHS chief, lawmakers meet over drug prices On The Money: GOP shrugs off Trump shutdown threat | Trump warns Japan ties could sour over trade | US businesses add 163k workers in August | House GOP huddles on 'tax cut 2.0' MORE (R-Texas), chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, said the tax package provides $560 billion through breaks that will no longer expire — and $650 billion in total tax relief — over 10 years. 
 
 The text of that bill, which runs more than 200 pages, was posted online just before midnight. 
 
 Several lawmakers who heard the presentation said the omnibus includes a two-year delay of the Cadillac tax, something senior officials in the Obama administration opposed. 
 
 Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid Harry Mason ReidDems can’t ‘Bork’ Kavanaugh, and have only themselves to blame Dem senator: Confidential documents would 'strongly bolster' argument against Kavanaugh's nomination Senate cuts work week short after nominations deal MORE (Nev.) made an all-out push for including the Cadillac tax freeze, which is a top priority of labor unions, whose members would be hit especially hard by it. 
 
 
 
 The deal also includes a five-year extension of tax breaks for wind and solar energy companies, something Democrats wanted. 
 
 It extends the 30 percent solar investment tax credit and a credit for solar-powered energy-efficient properties for three years before phasing it down in the final two. 
 
 The deal also extends the wind protection tax credit for two years before phasing it down over three years until the 2022 expiration date. 
 
 
 
 In exchange, Republicans have secured language in the omnibus that would lift the ban that has been in place since the 1970s on exporting crude oil from the United States. 
 
 Ryan emphasized that many popular business tax provisions, including the research and development tax credit and the Section 179 small-business expensing deduction, would be locked into law by the agreement. 
 
 Democrats in turn won provisions that would keep the 2009 expansions of the child tax credit, earned income tax credit and American opportunity tax credit for college tuition, all core pieces of President Obama’s stimulus law, on the books indefinitely. 
 
 “This evening Republican members were presented an omnibus spending bill and a robust tax extender package that will provide permanent relief to families and job creators,” said AshLee Strong, Ryan’s spokeswoman. 
 
 “While not getting everything we wanted, the Speaker noted that both packages include many provisions that Republicans have long fought for,” she said. 
 
 The deal also extends the state and local sales tax deduction indefinitely, another one of Reid’s priorities, as well as the deduction for teachers’ out-of-pocket classroom expenses. 
 
 It locks in the minimum 9 percent low-income housing tax credit rate floor and the employer wage credit for employees on active military duty. 
 
 Sen. Charles Schumer Charles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerKavanaugh thoroughly understands the role of impartiality in America's judicial system Left fed up with Schumer’s Supreme Court playbook Election Countdown: Fallout from Massachusetts stunner | In Delaware, Carper looks to avoid next progressive upset | Dem 2020 primary already in full swing | How a Dem ex-governor hopes to take red-state Tennessee | GOP challengers hit Dems over tax votes MORE (N.Y.), the third-ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership, scored a victory with the inclusion of language extending a mass transit tax benefit for the long-term. His office estimates it would save riders on the Long Island Rail Road more than $1,300 a year. 
 
 Schumer argues mass transit riders should get the same tax benefit as people who commute by car. Under current law, the monthly exclusion for employer-provided parking benefits is $250. 
 
 The omnibus also includes a $8.1 billion extension of the healthcare and compensation benefits for rescue workers who responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 
 
 Some conservatives are vowing to vote against the spending bill because it does not include language to halt the administration’s program to resettle Syrian refugees in the United States. 
 
 Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, "There's a lot of reason for Republicans to vote for it." But he declined to predict how many Republicans would support it. 
 
 "Even when I was the whip I wouldn't tell you the number," he said while leaving the closed-door meeting. "Let 'em read through it, and we'll know more tomorrow." 
 
 Naomi Jagoda contributed reporting. 
 
 - Updated on Dec. 16 at 5:03 p.m. ||||| WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders and the White House have reached agreement on a massive year-end tax and spending package, House Speaker Paul Ryan told GOP lawmakers late Tuesday, urging support for the legislation that delivers GOP wins but also includes many Democratic priorities. 
 
 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, accompanied by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, speaks during a news... (Associated Press) 
 
 The package would fund the government through the 2016 budget year, raise domestic and defense spending, and increase the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars by extending numerous popular tax credits without paying for them. It lifts the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude, a long-sought GOP goal that Republicans pointed to as their top win, and delays or suspends several taxes meant to pay for President Barack Obama's health care law. 
 
 Democrats won five-year extensions of wind and solar credits and a permanent extension of the child care tax credit, and beat back many GOP attempts to add favored policy provisions to the bill, including several aimed at rolling back Obama environmental regulations. 
 
 "This is divided government," Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., said coming out of the meeting. "If you're going to move forward and follow Speaker Ryan's notion that we move onto offense next year ... Let's put 2015 behind us and move onto 2016." 
 
 Ryan "said that in a divided government you're going to have some concessions, that's what compromise is about," added Rep. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin. 
 
 Democratic aides cautioned final language was still being reviewed. 
 
 Republican leaders predicted the package would come to a vote in the House and Senate on Thursday, allowing lawmakers to head home for the holidays having completed their needed tasks. First they will have to pass yet another short-term government funding extension, since the current one runs out Wednesday at midnight. 
 
 "In negotiations like this you win some, you lose some," Ryan, R-Wis., said earlier in the day at an event hosted by Politico. "Democrats won some, they lost some. We won some, we lost some." 
 
 Eleventh-hour negotiations twisted and turned on the mammoth deal pairing the $1.1 trillion government-wide spending legislation with a giant tax bill catering to any number of special interests. The deal, Congress' last major piece of unfinished business for the year, became the vehicle for countless long-sought priorities and odds and ends, including reform of visa-free travel to the U.S. and extensions of health benefits and compensation for 9/11 first responders. 
 
 Ryan himself has described the process around the sprawling spending bill as a "crap sandwich," and his announcement of a deal happened simultaneously with a GOP presidential debate that drew far more attention. 
 
 Democrats, despite their minority party status in Congress, exacted a steep price in the negotiations, thanks to Obama's veto pen and Republicans' need for their votes on the spending bill. 
 
 "We may not be in the majority but we're feeling that these goals are on track," boasted Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. 
 
 The final package ignored conservative demands for language clamping down on Syrian refugees entering the U.S. Instead it contains bipartisan changes tightening up the "visa waiver" program that allows visa-free travel to the U.S. for citizens of 38 countries, including France and Belgium, where many of last month's Paris attackers were from. 
 
 Republicans and some Democrats were behind the push for a two-year delay on taxes on high-cost health insurance policies, which don't take effect until 2018 but would be delayed until 2020, and a two-year suspension of the current 2.3 percent tax on some medical devices. 
 
 From the White House, press secretary Josh Earnest sounded resigned to Obama signing a bill lifting the crude oil export ban despite previous threats to veto the measure as stand-alone legislation. The export ban was imposed during energy shortages of the 1970s but has been declared outdated by industry allies. Environmentalists say lifting it would amount to a giant windfall for the oil industry. 
 
 "I'm confident that there will be things that will be included in the omnibus bill that we don't support," Earnest said. "I don't know if the lifting of the export ban will be among them, but our position on this is pretty clear." 
 
 Also in play were about 50 lapsed and expiring business and individual tax breaks that the two sides were looking to extend, in some cases permanently. The price tag was expected to be several hundred billion dollars or more over a decade, which would further add to federal deficits. The two sides agreed to make some expiring business tax credits permanent in exchange for doing the same to tax breaks for children, college students and lower-earning families. 
 
 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said such a deal would make a larger tax reform package easier to achieve next year, while satisfying business goals, including extending a research and development tax credit and a popular deduction for equipment purchases. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Andrew Taylor, Mary Clare Jalonick and Darlene Superville contributed to this report. ||||| House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) addressed the media Dec.16, after Congressional leaders agreed on a budget deal that would prevent a government shutdown. (AP) 
 
 Congressional leaders on Tuesday night reached agreement on a year-end spending and tax deal that would prevent a government shutdown and extend a series of tax breaks that benefit businesses and individuals, according to lawmakers. 
 
 House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) walked members of the House GOP conference through the deal at a meeting Tuesday night. 
 
 “Paul Ryan made a compelling case to support it tonight,” Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wis.) said after leaving the session. “He feels that it’s time to start fresh, that we increase our hand and we’ll have better negotiating position if we have a strong Republican vote this year.” 
 
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 While the deal is in place, Democrats said they want to make sure what they agreed to is properly represented in the legislative text. 
 
 “We will review language to ensure that all of our agreements are drafted accurately,” said Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). 
 
 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement Wednesday morning that Democrats will continue reviewing the text of the omnibus and that “a number of concerns have arisen.” 
 
 The House and Senate are expected to pass the legislation by the end of the week. With government spending authority set to expire at the end of Wednesday, however, leaders plan to quickly move another stopgap spending bill that would give Congress until Dec. 22 to clear the year-end spending bill, more time than is likely needed. 
 
 The sweeping agreement that came after weeks of bipartisan negotiations is the broadest tax and spending deal since the January 2013 “fiscal cliff” agreement, which prevented automatic spending cuts from taking effect and shielded middle-class workers from tax increases while allowing some increases on the wealthy. 
 
 Both parties will be able to claim policy victories while bemoaning what also made it in or was left out. 
 
 “A lot of us feel like we didn’t get things we wanted, but we got some stuff that we did want, and I think that’s going to be true on both sides,” said Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), the retiring chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee, who said he plans to support the agreement. “This is divided government, and if you’re going to move forward and follow Speaker Ryan’s notion that we want to move onto offense next year … then I think many of my colleagues will look at it like I do — that we need to move past this, get this done, let’s put 2015 behind us and get on to 2016.” 
 
 Ryan has portrayed the negotiations as a way to clear the decks for next year when under his leadership he promises a more methodical approach to moving appropriations bills. 
 
 “While not getting everything we wanted, the speaker noted that both packages include many provisions that Republicans have long fought for,” said AshLee Strong, a Ryan spokeswoman. “The speaker noted that though there are significant wins in these packages, we must not repeat this process and instead get back to regular order in 2016.” 
 
 Many House Republicans reserved judgment on whether they would support the proposals unveiled Tuesday, but most kept a positive attitude toward Ryan and the other GOP negotiators who cut the deal. 
 
 “The central players in this deserve a lot of credit for working this thing as hard as they did,” said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who had been critical of former speaker John A. Boehner’s unwillingness to take a harder line on immigration. “What’s really good in there is really the atmosphere. It’s changed so much in a couple months.” 
 
 Ribble said Ryan played the best hand he was dealt through the budget deal negotiated by Boehner (R-Ohio): “No one can challenge Speaker Ryan’s ability to lead through these things, and he’s been doing a pretty good job here. They’ve been negotiating in pretty good faith and trying to make the best deal they could.” 
 
 But some conservative discontent was obvious, and it remained unclear whether that would metastasize into outright mutiny in the coming days. 
 
 Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), a member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, predicted that most Republicans would not support the omnibus spending bill and rejected Ryan’s suggestion that a big Republican vote would improve the GOP negotiating position. 
 
 “I don’t understand that at all — give the Democrats what they want now so next time they won’t want as much?” he said. 
 
 Ryan has committed to allowing members three days to review the agreement, setting up a potential Thursday vote in the House. That could slip to Friday because the legislative text of the spending deal was not released until early Wednesday morning. 
 
 The tax discussions were closely linked with talks on the year-end appropriations bill as negotiators attempted to trade priorities across the two must-pass bills. 
 
 But House leaders are expected to have to rely on some procedural maneuvers to pass the package, by holding separate votes on the tax and spending parts of the deal. If both pass they would likely be rolled into one package for the Senate to consider later this week. 
 
 The tax break package would cost about $650 billion and extend around 50 credits for businesses and individuals while also delaying until 2017 a tax on medical device manufacturers. The approximately $1.1 trillion appropriations package would fund the government for the remainder of fiscal 2016 and contains a two-year delay of the Affordable Care Act’s so-called Cadillac Tax on expensive employer-sponsored health care plans as well as a delay of a tax on health insurance plan purchases. 
 
 The spending bill also would lift the 40-year ban on crude oil exports. In exchange for allowing this provision, Democrats secured the extension of tax breaks for wind and solar energy producers for five years. 
 
 Many Republicans are reluctant to support the appropriations bill because it is the result of an earlier deal to increase spending over the next two years. House Democratic leaders, meanwhile, oppose the tax package because they argue it doesn’t do enough for lower-income workers and would make it more difficult to strike a tax reform agreement in the future by making breaks for businesses appear less expensive than those for middle- and low-income taxpayers. 
 
 “Republicans’ tax extender bill provides hundreds of billions of dollars in special interest tax breaks that are permanent and unpaid for,” Pelosi said in a statement. “These massive giveaways to the special interests and big corporations are deeply destructive to our future.” 
 
 The tax bill is expected to pass mostly with Republican votes while Democrats will deliver enough support for the spending bill to get it through the House. 
 
 The tax bill would permanently extend nearly two dozen tax breaks for businesses and individuals while temporarily extending others. 
 
 “After years of short-term extensions, good faith bipartisan compromise prevailed,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). 
 
 The credits being permanently extended include: 
 
 An expanded Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income earners; 
 
 The Child Tax Credit for low and moderate income workers; 
 
 The American Opportunity Tax Credit to help students under age 40 pay college tuition and expenses; 
 
 Low income housing credits; 
 
 An expanded research and experimentation credit; 
 
 Section 179 business expensing, which allows businesses to fully deduct the price of equipment and software investments; 
 
 State and local sales tax deduction; 
 
 Tax deductions for food inventory donated to food banks; 
 
 A deduction for land donated for conservation; and 
 
 A tax break for individuals to donate to charity from qualified retirement accounts. 
 
 The spending bill includes a compromise over cybersecurity legislation that would encourage businesses to share information with the government about potential cyberthreats. The issue has pitted businesses against privacy advocates and efforts to complete a cybersecurity bill dragged on for years. The issue gained special urgency in the wake of several data breaches at major companies and in the U.S. government. It does not, however, address the latest cybersecurity debate over encryption that arose in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. 
 
 The agreement also would: 
 
 Permanently reauthorize federal health benefits for emergency personnel who responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; 
 
 Put in place new security requirements for a visa waiver program, which the House passed as a stand-alone bill earlier this month. that has come under scrutiny following the Paris terror attacks. The legislation does not include new restrictions that would prevent Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the country, a provision House Republicans had pushed to get in the bill; 
 
 Freeze funding for the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency; and 
 
 Repeal country-of-origin food labeling requirements. 
 
 Karoun Demirjian contributed to this report. 
 
 Correction: An earlier version of this report incorrectly labeled Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s political affiliation.
– Congressional leaders have reached a deal that will let them go home for the holidays and avoid spending most of 2016 squabbling about government shutdowns. House Speaker Paul Ryan told GOP lawmakers on Tuesday night that a $1.1 trillion omnibus funding bill that will keep the government running until October next year has been agreed on, reports the Hill. Under the "three-day" rule, lawmakers will have time to review the 2,009-page text before a vote takes place on Thursday or Friday. The government's spending authority expires Wednesday, and lawmakers are expected to pass a stopgap spending bill that will give them until Dec. 22 to vote on the new package, the Washington Post reports. The bill—which includes a $650 billion package extending numerous tax credits—meets some key Republican demands, including the lifting of the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports and the suspension of some taxes linked to ObamaCare, while the Democratic wins include five-year extensions of wind and solar credits, the AP reports. An agreement to reauthorize health benefits for 9/11 first responders made it into the deal, and restrictions on Syrian refugees didn't. "A lot of us feel like we didn't get things we wanted, but we got some stuff that we did want, and I think that's going to be true on both sides," says GOP Rep. John Kline, per the Post. "We need to move past this, get this done, let's put 2015 behind us and get on to 2016."