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Barack Obama: Under the President's budget, non-defense discretionary spending would average 3.6 percent of GDP over the next decade.

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
Under the President's budget, non-defense discretionary spending would average 3.6 percent of GDP over the next decade.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama discusses the projected non-defense spending under his budget plan.

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