This week, the House of Representatives passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill to fund the U.S. government through September. The passage of this gargantuan 2,741-page piece of legislation comes after several stop-gap measures to keep the government open.
Normally, annual funding bills don’t receive much attention. This one, however, is different because it dumps $782 billion, or a little more than half of the total discretionary spending, into national defense programs. This would be the highest per-dollar defense budget in history.
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