Spicer: Spending Bill Is a ‘Great Deal’ for the President

‘He got $21 billion in military funding’

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SPICER: "I think Director Mulvaney addressed that extensively yesterday. To get back to Mike's point, this is a great deal for the President. He got $21 billion in military funding. That is a huge campaign pledge that he made very clearly to modernize and update the military. It fully funds the largest military pay raise in six years. It ends the Obama sequestration policy of pairing increases of domestic spending for every dollar to dollar. It got $1.52 billion in border security which is the first installment in securing our nation's southern border, it got $1.3 billion to coal miners which delivers on another promise that he made. There's no ObamaCare bailout, the CSR payments, which was something the Democrats wanted. There's a three year extension of the DC opportunity scholarship choice which you saw the children that will benefit from that this morning. It increases funds for opioid crisis. It eliminates, rescinds and terminates 150 programs or initiatives. Director Mulvaney laid this out yesterday. When you look at what the President came forward with a month or so ago and said, ‘These are my priorities,’ he got what he asked for. I think that's big." 

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