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Lawmakers Introduce $1T Spending Bill With Health Law Prevention Fund Cuts
The $1 trillion spending bill that lawmakers introduced Monday cuts $1 billion from the health law's Prevention and Public Health Fund and holds down funding for other health law programs to 2013 levels, but leaves it otherwise untouched. The package also funds the National Institutes of Health, but at lower levels than approved by Congress in 2013 and continues a ban on the federal government paying for abortions in the District of Columbia.
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