Ap­pro­pri­a­tions bill would give FDA $269M boost over FY2018 bud­get

With one day left be­fore the US gov­ern­ment faces an­oth­er shut­down, the House and Sen­ate are poised to pass a sev­en-bill spend­ing pack­age on Thurs­day to fund large por­tions of the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment through FY2019. And Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has said he will sign the bill.

The spend­ing pack­age comes near the end of a three-week stop­gap fund­ing mea­sure to al­low the gov­ern­ment to re­open af­ter a record 35-day par­tial gov­ern­ment shut­down that be­gan on 22 De­cem­ber 2018 af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump re­fused to sign a short-term spend­ing bill over his de­mand for $5.7 bil­lion for a wall along the south­ern bor­der.

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