Wait how did the minority DEM get the majority of what they wanted in the majority led GOP budget deal? – PB/TK
Democrats chalk up big wins in government funding deal – By May 2, 2017
Democrats scored some major victories despite their position in the minority in the bipartisan agreement reached late Sunday on legislation that would fund the government through September.
The $1.1 trillion omnibus spending package, for example, does not fund President Trump’s planned wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, funding for Planned Parenthood is included and the deal would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a budget boost, rather than the $1.2 billion cut that the White House proposed.
Part of the administration’s “skinny budget” submitted to Congress in March requested $18 billion in cuts to non-defense domestic programs as well as $3 billion in border security funding. None of the $18 billion in cuts is fulfilled in the deal, according to a senior congressional aide, though Republicans have touted cuts that were already built into their appropriations bills. Of the $3 billion requested for border security, the measure would provide $1.5 billion.
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