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Senate stopgap carves out over $800B for defense amid funding freeze
['Brett Rowland', 'The Center Square']
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The measure would largely maintain federal agencies at prior-year funding rates, but it carves out billions in exceptions, including for Navy shipbuilding programs with prior-year cost increases.
CBO estimated the stopgap at about $1.7 trillion in annualized budget authority and $1.87 trillion in outlays across the 12 appropriations bills it extends.
Of that, $843.9 billion in budget authority is for defense.
The CBO estimate also identifies $1.54 billion in emergency-designated budget authority for the EPA's Superfund program.
CBO says the money stems from a 2023 law rather than from a new emergency designation in the stopgap.