House passes budget, almost along party lines

 AUSTIN — House Republicans, rebuffing Democrats’ pleas that deep cuts will tip Texas into a tailspin, passed a bare-bones state budget late Sunday that leaders called realistic, balanced — and a work in progress.

The vote, which broke nearly along party lines, was 98-49. Only two Republicans voted against the...

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