Obama Said to Seek 7% Budget Boost, Setting Up Fight With Congress
The new money would mean as much as $34 billion each for the national security and domestic sides of what will be a budget of almost $4 trillion.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to a packed room at Cedar Falls Utilities on January 14, 2015 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Obama spoke of plans to increase access to affordable high-speed broadband internet service across the nation.
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President Barack Obama will ask Congress for as much as $68 billion more than current budget limits in fiscal 2016, according to two people familiar with the administration’s proposal.
The request sets up a fight with the Republican-led House and Senate over whether to reverse part of the spending limits that the U.S. Congress and the White House agreed to in fiscal deals earlier this decade.