Today, the Administration sent a supplemental appropriations request to Congress asking for an additional $30 billion for the Department of Defense (DOD) to rebuild the U.S. Armed Forces and accelerate the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and an additional $3 billion for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for urgent border protection activities. For DOD, $5 billion would go into the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, which is not subject to sequester budget limits.
The Administration proposes the remainder, $18 billion, to come from unspecified nondefense discretionary spending.
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