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Officials in counties dominated by federal forestland are struggling to parse out their budgets after the expiration of a bill that provides local governments with funding to compensate for their inability to levy taxes on federal lands.

The House has narrowly passed a spending bill containing deep cuts to EPA's budget and dozens of legislative riders that Democrats call “poison pills," setting up a difficult negotiation with the Senate, where the Appropriations Committee advanced a markedly different bill Thursday.