Congress is giving NASA more money than it requested to build a second launch platform

Today, Trump signed into law a massive $1.3 trillion spending bill that will fund the federal government through the rest of fiscal year 2018, and the deal is quite generous to NASA. Practically all of NASA’s programs get a funding boost, and the space agency even gets money that it didn’t ask for — notably, the funds needed to build a second launch platform for its next big rocket.
The spending bill gives NASA an extra $350 million in 2018 to make the structure, which will be