President Trump will request $639 billion for the Defense Department in fiscal 2018, including $65 billion in the overseas contingency operations account, according to his budget blueprint released Thursday.
The request is expected to be $574 billion for the Defense Department’s base budget, which is a 10 percent increase from the funding level in the 2017 continuing resolution, according to the budget document released Thursday morning. The $65 billion for overseas operations was what analysts anticipated and is in line with the request for fiscal 2017. More details are expected when the administration releases its full budget in May.
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