Today the House passed a $1.4 trillion spending pact that would inject federal agencies with $49 billion in extra cash this fiscal year, enact a host of substantial policy changes and avert a repeat of last year's holiday-time government shutdown
“We think we did pretty well,” Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby said Monday night, after top appropriators debuted the 2,300-page text of their compromise. “In any appropriations deal, in any standoff, you have to give and take. We didn’t get everything we wanted. The president didn’t get everything he wanted. But that’s the nature of what we do.”
The deal would repeal three key health taxes that were projected to yield about $400 billion in offsets to Obamacare over a decade. It would save retirement benefits for tens of thousands of coal miners and includes long-sought money for research into gun violence, millions for election security grants, billions in added Pentagon cash and a 3.1 percent pay raise for federal civilian employees.
The wall funding also comes with fewer stipulations than before, giving the Trump administration more flexibility to continue building the structure in new areas if Congress keeps spending static next time by resorting to a stopgap spending bill. Conservatives are also decrying the deal as a budget-busting deficit bomb that came together without any transparency.
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