The add-ons increase the spending bill’s size and cost while the details are often opaque, even to the lawmakers who approve them. The spending deal directs the money to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. In the aftermath of the San Bernardino massacre in 2016, the California Legislature decided to start funding gun research that the federal government wouldn’t support. Attempts to revive federal spending took on a new sense of urgency in the aftermath of recent mass shootings. Proposals to expand federal tax credits for electric vehicles did not make it into the final package, despite support from Democrats and a handful of Republicans, including Sens.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 17, 2019 18:33 UTC