Blunt points to health funding in new spending bill

Congress has passed a $1.3 trillion bill, avoiding a government shutdown. Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt says he’s happy to see a $3 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health, to research diseases like Alzheimer’s. “The projection is by 2050 we’ll be spending twice as many tax dollars on Alzhemier’s-related care, and dementia-related care, …

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