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CalChris on March 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA

> The military is 60 percent of the budget.

50% of the discretionary budget. You were embarrassingly close.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...

bitJericho on March 5, 2017 [–]

I prefer to include veteran benefits.

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