V.P. Pence: A ‘Win for the American People’
VP Mike Pence |
1) WISE STEWARDSHIP OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS: Abides by the spending caps set in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015: $551 billion cap on defense spending and $518.5 billion cap on non-defense spending.
2) REBUILDING AMERICA’S MILITARY: Includes $21 billion for the President’s defense spending priorities, including the largest troop pay raise in 6 years.
RAMPING UP BORDER SECURITY:$1.522 billion additional dollars to use on projects like wall maintenance, infrastructure, roads, bridges, gates, technology, and immigration enforcement.
4) STREAMLINING THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY: Eliminates, rescinds funds for, or consolidates more than 150 government programs and initiatives.
5) EMPOWERING SCHOOL CHOICE: Increases funding for charter schools by $9 million, reauthorizes the D.C. school choice program for three-years.
6) FIGHTING THE HEROIN & OPIOID EPIDEMIC: $1.1 billion for prevention, treatment, and enforcement programs to help communities across our country suffering from the heroin and opioid epidemic.
7) ENSURING MINER HEALTH CARE BENEFITS: Permanently extends health care for thousands of retired coal miners.
8) PROHIBITING A TAXPAYER BAILOUT OF OBAMACARE’S RISK CORRIDORS
9) CUTTING EPA: Funding cut for the sixth time in seven years, to the lowest funding level since 2008.
10) NO FUNDING FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA’S CLIMATE SLUSH FUND: Does NOT provide any funding for the Green Climate Fund, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or other Paris climate change institutions.
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