FINAL FEDERAL SPENDING BILL INCREASES DOMESTIC SPENDING PROVIDING MORE EVIDENCE THAT THERE IS MONEY FOR RAISES FOR NYC EMPLOYEES

The UFT contract will expire before the end of 2018. UFT President Michael Mulgrew has been whining about how the President will cut federal spending for education creating a huge hole in the city's budget right when municipal labor contracts are being negotiated. That prediction has not turned into any kind of reality.

Federal domestic spending is increasing in the spending bill Donald Trump signed last week after it passed both chambers of Congress.

From the Atlantic:
President Obama finally got a Republican-controlled Congress to fund his domestic budget. All it took was Donald Trump in the White House to get it done.

In the $1.3 trillion spending bill that President Trump reluctantly signed on Friday, lawmakers did more than reject the steep cuts in dollars and programs that Trump proposed for domestic agencies a year ago. Across much of the government, Republican leaders agreed to spending levels that matched or even exceeded what Obama asked Congress to appropriate in his final budget request in 2016—and many of which lawmakers ignored while he was in office.

The Department of Health and Human Services received $78 billion, nearly identical to the $77.9 billion Obama sought and almost 20 percent more than what the Trump budget called for. Ditto for the Department of Labor and the Department of Education, which got $1.5 billion more than Obama’s final request and nearly $12 billion more than the reduced level Trump sought. Obama-era priorities like Head Start and Pell Grants drew increases, too.

Don't believe any cries of poverty from any city or union official. This is a Democratic budget in terms of domestic spending and a Republican budget on military spending.