But you need to realize that the budget before us has 13 new spending programs or additions or additional funding to mandatory and entitlement programs that do not exist under current law. Let me go over what those are: environmental reserve fund. We have five new or expanded Medicare benefits. I am going to come back to Medicare. We increase Medicaid funding for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. We increase Medicare funding in terms of reducing copayments at the very time we cannot pay for Medicare as it now exists. We restore welfare benefits for immigrants and refugees and asylees. We expand the Food Stamp Program. We expand a welfaretowork grant.
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