The House-passed version of Republicans’ tax and spending bill would add $2.8 trillion to US deficits over the next decade, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office that incorporate the broader impact the legislation would have on the economy and federal budget.

“This is going to be jet fuel,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier this month.

A federal judge on Monday ordered the government to restore funding for hundreds of National Institutes of Health grants cut by the Trump administration, ruling that the government discriminated again...