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our competitive edge. Hello and welcome to the Punch Bowl News Reback podcast. I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen,

and this week I'm joined by Brianna Riley, our defense reporter here at Punchball News Defense.

Brianna, it's been a busy week in defense news on the Hill, and we'll start with the $1.5 trillion request the Trump administration

sent in for the Department of Defense budget. How is that being received on the Hill and just walk

me through that very large, historic number? Hey, Max, it's so great to be back. Thank you so much

for having me on. Yeah, it's a huge week in defense circles.

Defense Super Bowl, you know, really in all regards. So we sort of, we knew this $1.5 trillion

top line was coming, right? Trump forecasted back in January. We saw initial details about this request

from the Office of Management and Budget earlier this month. But April 21st, this week, Tuesday, was really the big day for us defense budget watchers

because that's when the Pentagon released the justification books behind this request.

So it really broke out both in the books and then in a press conference that DOD officials did

and also military service officials

on Tuesday, what is in the base budget request and what is in reconciliation?

And then also on top of that, what the future year defense spending projections look

like. So huge day on Tuesday. And it's to get to your question about how it's being received

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