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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 08:27 PM Feb 2018

Here is WHAT is in the budget approved bipartisan Senate

The debt ceiling will be raised by the appropriate amount until March 2019.
There will be $10 billion for fiscal year 2018 and $10 billion for fiscal year 2019 to invest in infrastructure, including programs for water, broadband, energy and transportation.
Another $2 billion for fiscal year 2018 and $2 billion for fiscal year 2018 will be allotted to help reduce the backlog in Veteran Affairs healthcare maintenance.
There will be $2 billion for fiscal year 2018 and $2 billion for fiscal year 2019 for high education programs programs helping students in college completion and affordability, as well as helping police officers, teachers and firefighters.
For child care, $2.9 billion for fiscal year 2018 and $2.9 billion for fiscal year 2019 -- including the bipartisan Child Care Development Block Grant program
The National Institutes of Health will be funded $1 billion for fiscal year 2018 and $1 billion for fiscal year 2019 to support research.
There will be $3 billion allotted for fiscal year 2018 and $3 billion for fiscal year 2018 to combat the opioids and substance abuse epidemic, including state grants, public prevention programs, and law enforcement needs related to substance abuse and mental health programs.
Two year reauthorization for Community Health Centers with increased funding, with more than $7 billion in total funding
Closing the Medicare Part D "donut hole" for seniors in 2019
Ten years of the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), increased from six years
$495 million over two years for the National Health Service Corps
$363 million over two years for Teaching Health Centers
Health Extenders, including permanently repealing the therapy cap, delaying the Medicaid DSH cuts, and five years of funding for home visiting programs



I dont see WALL here.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/politics/whats-in-the-budget-deal-senate-congress-bipartisan/index.html

Anybody know more about it? My concern is giving in one inch on the wall which gives chief traitor a win which we cant afford.
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Here is WHAT is in the budget approved bipartisan Senate (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 OP
mysteriously out of money Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #1
Why weren't we out of money when it came to paying for that horrible tax give-away? MiniMe Feb 2018 #2

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,321 posts)
1. mysteriously out of money
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:46 PM
Feb 2018

Suddenly, we're out of money. It all seems to have been sucked up by some crazy tax bill that was rushed through some unknown part of government in the far distant past.

You can't explain stuff like that!
God's will. Mysteries of life.
Must rob more poor people to fix it.

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