Dozens of trade-offs in $1.1 trillion budget bill [View all]

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Dozens of trade-offs in $1.1 trillion budget bill
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
January 14, 2014 Updated 10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — The sales job is on for a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would pay for the operations of government through October and finally put to rest the bitter budget battles of last year.

The massive measure contains a dozens of trade-offs between Democrats and Republicans as it fleshes out the details of the budget deal that Congress passed last month. That pact gave relatively modest but much-sought relief to the Pentagon and domestic agencies after deep budget cuts last year.

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Democrats pleased with new money to educate preschoolers and build high-priority highway projects are likely to make up the difference even as Republican social conservatives fret about losing familiar battles over abortion policy.

The bill would avert spending cuts that threatened construction of new aircraft carriers and next-generation Joint Strike Fighters. It maintains rent subsidies for the poor, awards federal civilian and military workers a 1 percent raise and beefs up security at U.S. embassies across the globe. The Obama administration would be denied money to meet its full commitments to the International Monetary Fund but get much of the money it wanted to pay for implementation of the new health care law and the 2010 overhaul of financial regulations.



unhappycamper comment: Sweet!!1! We're still building the $40,000,000,000 USS Gerald R Ford & $247,000,000 F-35s.

I'm still having problems trying to wrap my head around quarter billion F-35s and 40 billion for a fucking ship, sans people, aircraft and common sense. .