It provides $2 billion to the National Institutes of Health. It provides a solution to the citrus greening crisis that is impacting
our citrus growers in south Texas and other parts. It provides funding
for 10 additional immigration judges and their support staff to help
cut down the backlog of over half a million cases that we have on top
of the 55 immigration judges we had last year. As Chairman Carter said
a few minutes ago, it adds $1.5 billion to improve the Nation's border
security without funding the medieval wall that we have. Again, I thank all of my colleagues for working in a bipartisan way.
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