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Lawmakers, Analysts Critique Trump’s Proposed FY ’20 Defense Budget

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, March 11th, 2019

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Lawmakers, Analysts Critique Trump’s Proposed FY ’20 Defense Budget

Democratic lawmakers criticized the White House’s initial fiscal year 2020 defense budget request when it was unveiled March 11, with funding for President Trump’s border wall and a sharp increase in overseas contingency operations (OCO) funding drawing ire. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in an email that the budget, which includes a $750 billion topline for defense spending, is “not worth the paper it is printed on, and will be rejected by Congress.”…

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