Posted on 03/22/2018 9:16:03 AM PDT by rktman
Here is what is in the text:
Key Features of the House Bill
1) Defense Spending
House lawmakers are making the largest investment in American defense in the past 15 years, according to the House Appropriations Committee. The bill provides $654.6 billion in domestic and Global War on Terror/Overseas Contingency Operations funding, marking the largest year-to-year increase since the start of the War on Terror.
2) Infrastructure Spending
The legislation includes some $21 billion for domestic infrastructure spending on transportation, water, cyber and energy projects.
3) School Safety
Lawmakers are trying to answer the public calls for legislative fixes to gun violence in the wake of the Texas, Nevada and Florida shootings. Responding to those calls, House lawmakers are proposing $2.3 billion toward funding mental health, additional training, and school safety programs at the Departments of Justice, Education and Health and Human Services.
4) Opioid Crisis Funding
The House is proposing roughly $4 billion in funding to combat the opioid crisis Trump has laid out as one of his top priorities.
5) Border Wall Funding
Lawmakers offered $1.57 billion for the construction of physical barriers along the southern U.S.-Mexico border. That funding would include only $641 million for 33 miles of new border wall security — under half of what the president asked Congress for previously. In total, Congress is providing grossly under the $25 billion the White House asked for construction of a border wall and enhanced border security.
6) Gun Background Checks
The bill includes funding for legislation Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn put forth called “Fix NICS.” The bill also includes grants to increase school infrastructure security and allows the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun control as a health issue.
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HELL, IT IS OUR MONEY!!!!!
Not one half mile of Wall. Just fence. Hundreds of millions to combat non-existent Russian election hacking.
Failure.
No mention of the abortionists getting their large slice of the pie. Under reporting of the lack of funds for a wall. No mention of the boondoggle projects in various districts, deficit skyrockets again. No explanation of the gun control legislation funded in Fix NICS. Democrats get everything they want, conservatives stabbed in the back again.
Yeah, but you missed the part where the NRA gets gazillions of tax payer dollars to make and sell ARs at discount prices. Yup. I missed it too.
I did miss that. I did not miss the part where sanctuary cities are fully funded again.
Very awesome.
Well, that is the problem. It IS originally OUR money.
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