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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by findateamfirst on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:56PM (#13789143)
Those are non discretionary and funded by totally separate channels.
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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by ra1n85 on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:09PM (#13789200)
And?

Mandatory spending is more than twice that of discretionary. Of discretionary, defense makes up less than 50%.

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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by spott on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:45PM (#13789325)
I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers: care to elaborate?

This[0] directly contradicts you:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

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Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA by ra1n85 on Saturday March 04, 2017 @10:38AM (#13791293)
Here: http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate

Mandatory: 2.56T Discretionary: 1.08T

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