House Appropriations Chairman supports fiscal 2017 omnibus spending bill

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey opens debate on a five-month spending bill, listing out features of the bill and allocations to programs of the federal government in accordance with negotiations finalized days earlier and priorities of the Trump administration, noting the largest increase in border security infrastructure in over a decade as a down payment. Frelinghuysen notes that the bill cuts and freezes funding for wasteful and unnecessary programs such as 81 million dollars from the Environmental Protection Agency and improves services to taxpayers.