Fierce Healthcare February 9, 2018
The spending deal lifts budget caps to increase defense and domestic spending over the next two years, but will increase the national deficit by roughly $320 billion.
A brief, overnight government shutdown came to an end Friday morning when President Donald Trump signed a $400 billion, two-year bipartisan, budget deal that includes funding for several major healthcare programs, including the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), community health centers and initiatives to combat the opioid crisis.
The spending deal lifts budget caps to increase defense and domestic spending over the next two years, but will increase the national deficit by roughly $320 billion. The addition to the deficit led Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to protest the bill, delaying a Senate vote...
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