Congress makes progress on spending deal to avert government shutdown
Lisa Desjardins:
Right. This is called the top line.
And it's important to understand what we're talking about here. This is the funding that Congress controls. It's called the discretionary funding. Really, this is the business of government, the size of government. And this has been such a painstaking debate, especially for Republicans who have wanted to cut the size of government.
This is one reason Kevin McCarthy lost his job over these levels. So let's look at what the deal was between Leader Schumer in the Senate and new Speaker Mike Johnson in the House. They agreed to these spending levels, about $1.7 trillion.
Now, here's what we're talking about. More of that goes to defense, slightly more, about $890 billion, than to non-defense, $772 billion, about that. But what does that mean? Let's compare it to last year's levels, almost exactly the same.
And that is significant, I will point out, and our viewers probably noticed, a little bit of an increase there for defense, about 4 percent of an increase there. But it's significant, because this is kind of stopping the growth of government in a way we haven't seen in a long time.
However, it isn't cutting back in the way that House conservatives want to see either. So this is a risk either way. They have to try and now figure out the details of which agencies get what percent of that money.
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