WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have a plan for helping students afford the growing costs of college, in part by creating a partnership with states to provide two years of tuition-free community college. They also want to take $5 billion House Republicans have proposed for President Donald Trump's long-promised wall with Mexico and divert it to other immigration programs.

One House-passed bill, backed mostly by Republicans, would repeal a tax imposed on some medical devices to help pay for the "Obamacare" health care law, a statute the GOP despises. With another, still a bare-bones outline,...