From USA TODAY:
…The nation’s health care law continues to be funded, despite objections from Republicans who wanted to repeal Obama’s initiative and voted in February to strip all funding for its implementation. Funding was eliminated for health care co-ops and “free choice vouchers,” provisions in the law that were pushed by Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Ron Wyden, respectively….
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which grants money to NPR and public television stations, will receive $1.1 billion — about the level at which it was funded in fiscal 2010. The GOP-led House voted to strip all funding for NPR, amid a controversy over a secretly taped video in which an NPR fundraiser was caught denigrating Republicans and the Tea Party….
Funding for high-speed rail, a top priority of Obama and Vice President Biden, has been eliminated…
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