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YOUR

CONGRESSMAN

REPORTS

. By. Ret>. Burr P. Harrison

Washing ton— Expenditures grouped as "major national security’’—operating the armed forces plus atomic energy work, stockpiling of essential materials and the strictly military aspects of foreign aid—account for 59.5 per cent of Pirsident Eisenhower’s $77.1 bilf lion budget. The budget total for defense spending in the fiscal year beginning July 1 is $45.8 billion]

It is interesting to note, however that this estimate for defense rep-| respits a reduction from the total! expected to be spent for such purposes in the present fiscal, year. On the other har. J, certain items of; non-defense speeding provided for iri Mr. Eisenhower's budget are j increa^d for example, those for >

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