... This funding increases the chance that necessary renovations at the VA hospitals in Brockton and West Roxbury get done sooner, giving our military veterans the care they need and deserve when they return home.
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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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