4 winners and 4 losers from Congresss massive $1.3 trillion spending package

[underpants]

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/23/17152122/winners-losers-omnibus-congress-spending

Loser: Trump’s immigration agenda
Winner: the Republican tax bill (The "grain glitch" )
Loser: Betsy DeVos
Winner: government data
Loser: Susan Collins

Winner: federally funded research
This spending bill was also a small victory for gun violence research. For years, Congress has more or less banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or any federal agency, from using taxpayer money on public health research about firearms. Technically, the Dickey Amendment barred the CDC from spending any money “to advocate or promote gun control” — a provision the federal agency largely interpreted as an outright ban.

But the spending bill clarifies that the law doesn’t actually prevent them from doing the research — the result of a larger debate Congress has been having about gun control after the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Loser: conservatives
Winner: tipped workers
Honorable mention loser: James Risch’s ego

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Thanks for sharing the analysis.

Always good to have help sorting through the endless flow of important info.

[underpants]

2. Thanks. Really good info