A bipartisan spending package rolled out Monday would turn down several key Trump administration budget proposals aimed at restructuring components inside the Justice Department and orders reports on a new way the DOJ is coordinating some major probes.
The bill would decline a past Justice Department proposal to eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and merge its functions into the Drug Enforcement Administration, an idea the department has appeared to back off on.
Groups on both sides of the gun debate found rare agreement in opposing the plan, though for different reasons. The bill would fund the ATF and DEA separately.
