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2007 Proposed Defense Budget

Next week, President Bush will request a $439.3 billion Defense Department budget for 2007, a nearly 5 percent increase over this year. The spending plan would include $84.2 billion for weapons programs, a nearly 8 percent increase, which would be spent on new ships, jets, and other aircrafts. The budget also includes an increase in weapons spending for the Army, which in all is expected to get $16.8 billion in the 2007 budget, compared with $11 billion it received this year. The new budget plan shows the fifth year in a row that spending on weapons has increased, after years of cutbacks during the 1990s. The expansion would permit soldiers to spend two years at their home station for every year they are deployed to a war front.
Bush's Defense Budget

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