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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Top Stories Most Popular Photos Full Coverage Sitemap US spending battle escalates amid shutdown fears AFP - Saturday, February 19 Send IM Story Print US spending battle escalates amid shutdown fears WASHINGTON (AFP) - – US lawmakers headed into the weekend locked in an angry battle over spending cuts amid growing concerns that the world's richest country may be headed toward a government shutdown. After voting to block funding for President Barack Obama's health overhaul, the House of Representatives turned back a Republican proposal to withhold dues to the United Nations in a late-night session Friday. The House, debating hundreds of spending proposals for the current fiscal year, voted 243-177 defeating the measure from Republican Representative Paul Broun, who had said Washington's yearly contribution to the world body amount to throwing money down "rat holes." The chamber's Republican leaders aimed to wrap up work Saturday on a spending package to fund the US government through September 30 while slashing some 60 billion dollars in outlays. In the closing hours of a bruising, round-the-clock debate begun Tuesday, lawmakers invoked everything from US slavery to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and accused each other of laziness and legislative malpractice. The United States is the biggest contributor to the United Nations, paying more than 2.5 billion dollars to the UN peacekeeping and regular budgets last year. Democratic Representative Jim Moran blasted a Republican push for even deeper budget cuts, warning of "an economic death spiral." Republican Representative Steve King pushed to block funding for Obama's health overhaul, describing it as a spreading "tumor" and warning: "American liberty is being strangled off by Obamacare." The polarized House approved three amendments aimed at starving Obama's signature domestic policy achievement of money to implement its provisions, by party-line margins of 239-187, 241-187, and 237-191. Obama, weakened by election losses in November, has already threatened to veto the spending bill in the unlikely event that its deep cuts to foreign aid and domestic programs survive the Democratic-controlled Senate. Though seized by a cost-cutting spirit, US lawmakers spared some programs -- notably voting 281-148 to reject a push by Democratic Representative Betty McCollum to bar the Pentagon from sponsoring NASCAR race cars. They also voted 331-98 against capping Afghan war funds -- but approved an amendment stripping Planned Parenthood, a major US provider of birth control and abortion, of funds by a 240-185 margin. And they defeated a push to withhold moneys critical to a settlement of a cotton subsidy feud with Brazil in a 246-183 ballot. Since opening the debate on Tuesday, the House has also voted to scrap funds for a second engine the F-35 fighter aircraft, restore money for police officers and firefighters, and eliminate funding for the US Institute of Peace as well as the East-West Center -- which Congress envisioned as a bridge to Asia. They have also rejected an amendment to cut $400 million from a fund to build up war-torn Afghanistan's infrastructure, and another to eliminate the 1.5 billion dollar Iraq Security Forces Fund. A current stopgap spending measure expires March 4, and increasingly nasty verbal sparring and finger-pointing in the US Congress could lead to a failure to adopt a replacement, triggering a government shutdown. The House and Senate are in recess next week, giving lawmakers a narrow window to agree on a compromise measure and making it increasingly likely that the Congress will have to adopt a short-term spending bill. But Republican House Speaker John Boehner warned Thursday that he would not accept any measure that did not markedly reduce spending -- a step that, if rejected by the Senate, would trigger a government shutdown. "When we say we're going to cut spending -- Read my lips: We're going to cut spending," he told reporters. That drew an angry rebuke from Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "They're going to shut down the government. And now he's resorting to threats to do just that without any negotiations. That is not permissible, we will not stand for that," he said. Republicans have vowed to largely spare the Pentagon, and keep aid to Israel and Egypt intact, but said Washington needs to tighten its belt to deflate its yearly budget deficit and reduce its swollen national debt. Democrats have broadly agreed on the need for austerity, but denounced an array of foreign aid cuts in the bill, warning that paring back the US State Department's funds could notably hurt its efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. 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