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On April 3, the White House released the President’s discretionary budget request, proposing a 44% increase in defense spending and a 10% decrease in non-defense discretionary spending. The president’s budget is mostly symbolic and rarely influences Congressional appropriations.

This month, the House Appropriations Committee will begin marking up spending bills, starting with Military Construction-Veterans Affairs and Financial Services-General Government, beginning the process earlier than in recent years.