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Winners and losers in budget deal.

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A look at some winners and losers in the bill that funds the government through Sept. 30: WINNERS Military: The bill includes $593 billion for the military, including $15 billion of Trump’s $30 billion emergency request from earlier this year. The Pentagon would receive a $26 billion increase over last year, a 4 percent increase. Military personnel would get a 2.1 percent pay hike. Planned Parenthood: The women’s health organizati­on will continue to receive federal funding despite repeated Republican efforts to deny the group money over the abortion services it provides. Puerto Rico: The budget includes $295.9 million to alleviate an emergency budget shortfall in the cash-strapped commonweal­th. Retired miners: The deal includes $1.3 billion to extend health insurance benefits for more than 22,000 retired mine workers and their widows.

National Institutes of Health: The deal rejects Trump’s proposal to slash spending, instead giving NIH a $2 billion boost for cancer research and other programs supported by lawmakers from both parties. College students: The bill restores eligibilit­y for year-round Pell Grants for college students. Opioid funding: The bill provides a $150 million increase for programs to address prevention and treatment of opioid and heroin abuse. Medical marijuana: The bill extends a policy that prohibits the Justice Department from using federal money to interfere with states’ medical marijuana laws.

Local law enforcemen­t: The bill includes $68 million to reimburse law enforcemen­t agencies in New York City and Florida that have borne substantia­l costs to protect Trump and his family. LOSERS

Border wall: Trump said at nearly every campaign stop last year that Mexico would pay for the 2,000-mile border wall, a claim Mexican leaders have repeatedly rejected. The administra­tion sought some $1.4 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars for the wall and related costs in the spending bill, but Trump later relented and said the issue could wait until after September. Trump, however, obtained $1.5 billion for border security measures such as 5,000 additional detention beds, an upgrade in border infrastruc­ture and technologi­es such as surveillan­ce.

Policy riders. GOP leaders backed away from language to take away grants from “sanctuary cities” that do not share informatio­n about people’s immigratio­n status with federal authoritie­s. Trump’s request for additional immigratio­n agents was denied and the IRS budget would be frozen at $11.6 billion instead of absorbing cuts sought by Republican­s.

Yucca Mountain: The bill includes no money to revive the dormant Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Trump has proposed $120 million to restart the licensing process for Yucca Mountain in the budget year that begins in October. Nevada lawmakers strongly oppose the plan.

Trump: The president made concession­s on the border wall and the White House backed off on a threat to withhold payments that help lower-income Americans pay their medical bills. Congressio­nal negotiator­s rebuffed proposed cuts to domestic and foreign programs pushed by the administra­tion earlier this year.

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