... A $7 billion increase in funding for veterans’ health care and other priorities, including $2 billion for VA hospital maintenance and construction projects.
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... $13 billion for Special Education Part B State Grants (IDEA), an increase of $275 million in funding.
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... $10 billion in new infrastructure funding, including increases of $2.55 billion for the federal highway program, $1 billion for TIGER grants, which fund road, transit and maritime projects, and $600 million for rural broadband infrastructure.
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... $37.1 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for medical research – a $3 billion increase in funding.
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... $80 billion for national defense, including a 2.4 percent cost-of-living pay increase for our sons and daughters in uniform.
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... $8.8 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which rejects President Trump’s attempt to reduce the EPA’s budget by 31 percent.
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While I fully support this bill, there is much more work to be done, and we must keep our government open and working to address all of America’s priorities.
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