$51B spending bill attracts veto threat
The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a $51.4 billion bill that would fund the Justice and Commerce departments as well as science agencies for fiscal 2016.
“The President's senior advisors would recommend that he veto H.R. 2578 and any other legislation that implements the current Republican budget framework, which blocks the investments needed for our economy to compete in the future,” the White House said.
The measure, according to the veto threat, “drastically underfunds critical investments in research and development.”
For example, the bill includes $50 million for a new Community Policing Initiative requested by President Obama. Of that amount, $15 million would be intended for body cameras. That's much less than the $50 million the White House requested from Congress for body cameras for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
At the Commerce Department, the Census Bureau’s proposed funding level would increase taxpayers’...
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