Dec 11, 2017 ... The sequester replacement deal in 2013 was fully offset, and any new ... billion  over two years would increase spending by $115 billion each year. If it's not offset , the deficit increase of the sequester deal would be 80 percent of the ... while  nondefense spending would increase to $553 billion (a 7 percent ...
Apr 1, 2011 ... Discretionary spending has "increased over 20-some percent in two ... "That's  after it's increased by over 20-some percent over the last two years if you ... the  congressman was referring to non-defense discretionary spending.
Feb 7, 2018 ... It's the largest year-over-year increase to the Pentagon's budget since it jumped  more than 25 percent in 2003, when ... appear to have won the 60 Senate votes  needed to lift the spending caps, ... billion for non-defense discretionary spending  over the next two years. ... Secretary of State , ... ] « Previous ...
Mar 16, 2017 ... To fund increases in defense spending and a border wall, Trump proposed cuts  across departments. ... would come out of non-defense discretionary programs. ...  among other things, funding was cut from the discretionary budgets of .... funding  — but only about 3 percent more than what it spent last year.
The United States federal budget consists of mandatory expenditures  discretionary spending ... Around two thirds of federal spending is for "mandatory"  programs. ... Over the past 40 years, mandatory spending for programs like  Medicare and ... As a share of federal budget, mandatory spending has  increased over time.
Non-defense discretionary spending has increased "by over 80 percent in the last two years."