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Pelosi sets spending demands for two-year budget deal
Source: Reuters
POLITICS JULY 13, 2019 / 9:35 PM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
Pelosi sets spending demands for two-year budget deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that a two-year budget agreement with the Trump administration must include equal increases in defense and nondefense spending, plus additional money for a program intended to improve healthcare for military veterans.
“We all agree on the need to address the debt limit, but we also must reach an agreement on spending priorities based upon the principle of parity as soon as possible,” the top Democrat in the House of Representatives told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a July 13 letter.
Pelosi’s office said it released the letter after she and Mnuchin spoke by phone on Saturday evening for 12 minutes.
“The two-year budget agreement we are working to achieve should provide equal increases in the defense base and the non-defense base over the next two fiscal years,” the speaker said in the letter.
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Pelosi sets spending demands for two-year budget deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that a two-year budget agreement with the Trump administration must include equal increases in defense and nondefense spending, plus additional money for a program intended to improve healthcare for military veterans.
“We all agree on the need to address the debt limit, but we also must reach an agreement on spending priorities based upon the principle of parity as soon as possible,” the top Democrat in the House of Representatives told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a July 13 letter.
Pelosi’s office said it released the letter after she and Mnuchin spoke by phone on Saturday evening for 12 minutes.
“The two-year budget agreement we are working to achieve should provide equal increases in the defense base and the non-defense base over the next two fiscal years,” the speaker said in the letter.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-debt-budget/pelosi-sets-spending-demands-for-two-year-budget-deal-idUSKCN1U900Y