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A stopgap spending bill includes $21.9 million for projects in South Dakota requested by Sen. Mike Rounds.

The funding allocates money for construction at Ellsworth Air Force Base and projects at South Dakota State University.

Sen. Rounds highlighted the negative effects the shutdown had on federal workers and families.

U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, said the stopgap spending bill to reopen the federal government includes $21.9 million worth of funding he requested for projects in South Dakota.

The spending bill incorporates the full-year appropriations bills for the Agriculture Department, the Legislative Branch, military construction projects and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Rounds said those bills include seven of his congressionally directed sp

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