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The big defense spending priorities awaiting Congress in September

There is a lot of business awaiting the House and Senate when they return to Washington.

While lawmakers wrap up their August recess, Breaking Defense Multimedia Director Daniel Woolfolk lays out several key funding measures confronting the House and Senate: a continuing resolution to keep the government open, the administration’s $1.15 trillion defense budget request — along with $350 billion requested through reconciliation — and a supplemental funding request for the ongoing US-Israeli war against Iran.