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      "date": "2005-04-20",
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      "title": "Defense Budget: Long-Term Challenges for FY2006 and Beyond",
      "summary": "Over the next few months, Congress will be considering Administration requests for more than\nhalf\na trillion dollars for national defense, including money in the regular defense budget for Fiscal Year\n2006 (FY2006), supplemental appropriations for costs of ongoing military operations in FY2005,\nand, possibly, additional funds in FY2006 to provide a \"bridge\" until future supplemental\nappropriations for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are available. \n The Administration's defense budget plans face some potentially daunting, though by no means\nunprecedented, long-term challenges, including:\n   Will projected budget deficits constrain the Administration's long-term defense\nbudget plans?  \n   Should Congress try to restrain further increases in military personnel pay and\nbenefits, as some Administration officials have argued, in view of dramatic increases in personnel\ncosts in recent years?  \n   What are the implications of continuing, perennial increases in defense\noperation and maintenance costs for the affordability of the Administration's\nplan?  \n   How affordable is the Administration's long-term plan for modernizing military\nforces in light of substantial and continuing cost growth in many systems?  \n   How might recent widely discussed changes in defense strategy affect priorities\nwithin the defense budget?  \n This report reviews long-term trends in the defense budget and discusses the challenges\nCongress and the Defense Department may face in trying to adjust plans in the face of fiscal\nconstraints. It will be updated periodically to reflect congressional action and new information.",
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    "Appropriations",
    "National Defense"
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