Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign has proposed an increase in federal funding for community health centers as part of the ongoing courtship of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endorsement in the presidential campaign.

Clinton wants to provide $40 billion to the health centers of the next 10 years and to classify that funding as mandatory spending that is insulated from the annual budget fights that take place in Congress.

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