$4 billion spending bill filled with lawmakers' pet projects

The long-awaited compromise over how to spend ARPA and fiscal 2021 surplus funds came together this week in a manner that the saw the bottom line of the final bill grow by about $180 million beyond what the House and Senate had initially proposed to spend.

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