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[|GOP Agrees to Drop Anti-Environment Riders from $1.3T Omnibus Spending Bill] Inside Climate News 3/22/2018

In order to avoid a government shutdown republicans have agreed to cut out many provisions that would have challenged environmental and campaign finance laws. Negotiators also blocked spending cuts proposed by Trump that would severely reduce clean energy funding. The bill is considered a compromise but it really has fit Trumps agenda quite nicely by devoting funds for the Mexican wall and increasing the pentagons spending budget, but this bill has sparked a lot of controversy and a huge backlash from the public. Though the troubling news for environmentalist is when the senate brought over 80 anti-environmental policy riders into closed door negotiations to write and edit this bill. __** Relevance to Course: **__ __** Option: **__ __** Law: **__
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