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Trump sends Congress record high ‘black budget’ spy funding request

By Steven Nelson
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Trump sends Congress record high ‘black budget’ spy funding request

President Trump sent Congress the largest-ever publicly disclosed request for spy agency funding, the administration revealed Tuesday.

Details about the so-called “black budget” are slim, but Trump is requesting $59.9 billion for non-military intelligence agencies and $21.2 billion for military intelligence in fiscal 2019.

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