Trump a winner in spending bill; retired miners out of luck
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump emerges as a winner in the final version of the must-pass spending bill as congressional Republicans tacked on an expedited process for ensuring his nominee for defense secretary can serve.
Michigan’s city of Flint, struggling with lead-tainted water, gets some financial relief in the legislation and so does southern Louisiana, hard hit by flooding this past summer.
Retired coal miners and their families, who had counted on a decades-old guarantee for their pensions, are out of luck.