Includes critical funding for national defense, healthcare & community development
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05), Dean of the House, voted for the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, which was signed into law over the weekend finalizing the six bipartisan federal funding bills for 2024. The package saves taxpayers more than $200 billion over the next ten years by cutting wasteful spending, while making strategic investments in our national defense, health care and community development. The legislation modernizes our military, funds a record number of Border Patrol Agents, and invests in enhanced drug interdiction and counterdrug activities.
The legislation delivers major conservative victories by prohibiting the use of federal funds for abortion and protecting the Hyde Amendment, defunding Biden's army of IRS agents, and preventing the Biden Administration from banning gas stoves, among other liberal policies.
“This isn’t a perfect agreement, but it moves America forward with a stronger military and important investments in healthcare, fighting the opioid epidemic with life-saving programs, and supporting community development programs that create competitive jobs and better educational opportunities, which are major priorities in Kentucky’s Appalachian region,” said Congressman Rogers, a senior appropriator. “I applaud the Appropriations Committee for diligently working on each of our 12 funding bills over the last year, making meaningful cuts to the Biden Administration’s wasteful spending, and ensuring that we are supporting programs that make America stronger.”
“In Southern and Eastern Kentucky, we’re making great strides to curb the opioid epidemic and become the nation’s recovery capital with more treatment beds per capita than anywhere else in the country. This bill advances our multi-faceted work with enhanced law enforcement, treatment, education and research,” said Congressman Rogers. “The bill also enhances rural healthcare, including important funding for diabetes, and improved detection and treatment of black lung disease.”
Important community development programs in Southern and Eastern Kentucky are supported in the legislation as well, including: Head Start programs, career and technical education grants, the Community Development Financial Institutions fund, and critical grants for first responders.
U.S. military service members also receive a historic pay raise in this agreement, and it enhances health care and other services for our worthy veterans.
For a list of wins for Southern and Eastern Kentucky, visit halrogers.house.gov.
Click here to read the legislation.
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