We passed
an omnibus spending bill of over $1 trillion. That bill had worked
through the Appropriations Committee of each House, 12 different bills
put together to fund the Federal Government. That particular bill gave
us the largest increase in defense spending in about a decade, the
largest increase in border security money in about a decade. It gave us
a substantial increase in money at the National Institutes of Health
and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, areas that
Democrats and Republicans alike have been working together on and feel
very strongly about. That bill also broke the one-to-one relationship--pretty artificial
relationship, in my view--that President Obama had laid down that, if
you increase defense spending, you have to automatically increase
domestic spending whether you need to or not or whether you can afford
to or not.
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