The winners and losers of the new spending bill (Since it is $1.1 TRILLION, all Americans lose)

wash post ^ | 1/14/14 | ed o'keefe

[bestintxas]

Congressional negotiators released the details of a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund federal agencies through the rest of the fiscal year and end the lingering threat of another government shutdown.

So, what's in it? We quickly sifted through the legislation, consulted supporting documents from Democratic and Republican aides, and called out some of the more notable and controversial elements below. (If you want a detailed report on each of the 12 pieces of the broader spending bill, it's all here.) ABORTION The bill once again bans the use of federal funding to perform most abortions, bans federal funding for abortions in the District of Columbia and for federal prisoners, and bans the use of U.S. foreign aid on abortions. But the agreement doesn't codify the so-called "Global Gag Rule" that bars nongovernmental organizations that receive federal funds from providing women information on certain health programs.

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT The agreement doesn't provide any new funding to implement the health-care law and maintains current funding levels at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the primary agency overseeing the law. But appropriators targeted a few controversial elements of the law.

First, there's a $1 billion reduction in the Prevention and Public Health Fund, a move Republicans say will keep administration officials from using the money to pay for elements of the health law. The bill also slashes $10 million for the Independent Payment Advisory Board, often referred to by Republicans as the "unelected bureaucrats" or "death panels" that are set to advise government officials on health-care issues.

[bestintxas]

Notice how frequently the narrative reads "Democrats also stopped Republicans from..."

The Goodies wagon must not be stopped, no matter how deep a hole we are in.

[WayneS]

Winners - Obamites, their cronies and their sycophants.

Losers - Everybody else.

[Tzimisce]

...so it’s packed with waste and bloat and bunch of other things that Republicans campaigned against but voted for anyway.

Great...

[DCBryan1]

1,000+ Pages?! Why can't one of our Reps or Senators enter this one little line in the monstrosity:

18 USC 922 (o) is hearby repealed

[Tzimisce]

In 2010 the Tea Party ran on a platform of reducing spending, making the government smaller and killing Obamacare.

Since that time, spending is at RECORD levels.
The Government is BIGGER than any other time in history.
And Obamacare is LOCKED IN.

[Travis T. OJustice]

(Since it is $1.1 TRILLION, all American TAXPAYERS lose)

FIFY

[Buckeye McFrog]

Most Accurate Edit to a FR Headline EVER!!!

[alancarp]

"The bill once again bans the use of federal funding to perform most abortions, bans federal funding for abortions in the District of Columbia and for federal prisoners, and bans the use of U.S. foreign aid on abortions."

So... does that mean any subsidized Obamacare policies can no longer be used to obain an abortion? Can I read it that way?

[alancarp]

typo: "obtain."

[what's up]

The Department of Homeland Security will take a $336 million cut in funding, with most of the reductions at the Transportation Security Administration. In a victory for Republicans who have sought for years to boost the use of private security contractors, the agreement increases funding for private security screeners and caps TSA's overall screening personnel at 46,000.

Very good!

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’ll benefit the One Percenters by about 90% and the poor 9%. Everyone else gets the leftovers.

[P-Marlowe]

The whole idea of creating a “fiscal year” as opposed to a calendar year was to give the government a 6 month reprieve from determining the deficit. Now here we are after pumping a trillion dollars of fake money just a month ago to keep the government running and we are talking about another trillion dollars just to get us through July.

Spending is clearly out of control. We are taxed beyond anything ever dreamt of by our founders and each dollar spent by this government is another dollar spent to rob us and our children of Liberty.

Just let the thing go into default mode. Force the government to actually cut some of the Liberty Robbing programs and send the Federal Workers into the same unemployment lines that we taxpayers have had to endure because of the Government regulations that have driven our employers into bankruptcy or out of the country.