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"<p>\n\tThe proposed budget by President Obama requests $553 billion for the base spending of the Defense Department and $118 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for a total of $671 billion.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tThe budget figure represents a rise of $22 billion above the 2010 fiscal year spending, which includes increased spending in cybersecurity and new efforts to protect against biological weapons, the Washington Post reports.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tDespite the increase in spending, the war funding drops from an expected $159 billion to the $118 billion proposed. The overall proposed figure in the year 2012 is expected to be around $20 billion less than defense spending was this year.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tSome weapons systems will be eliminated in the budget, like the $13 billion Marine amphibious landing craft known as the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, the Washington Post reports.<br />\n\t<br />\n\t&quot;Efficiency and management reforms&quot; have also been put in place to limit skyrocketing military healthcare costs, which will save $8 billion over the next five years.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tA total of $12.8 billion has been requested for Afghan security forces, which is up close to $1 billion from the current year, constituting even more from the amount contained in the fiscal 2011 continuing resolution.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tIndividual armed forced requests include the Army at $144.9 billion, the Navy at $161.4 billion and the Air Force at $150.0 billion.</p>\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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