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The president requested roughly $150 million and Congress enacted $488 million, according to Syring. Israeli missile defense program funding got a boost from Congress in 2015, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers seeking a boost for missile defense funding this year said\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0that\u00a0Israeli and US\u00a0national security are strongly linked and that\u00a0Israel&#8217;s missile defense innovations are significant to the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Missile defense is crucially important, and coming out of the Iran deal, we want to make clear our commitment to their security has not wavered,&#8221; said House Armed Services Ranking Member Adam Smith, D-Wash. &#8220;Any threats Israel faces from missiles from the south \u2014 from the Gaza Strip, Islamic jihad and Hamas \u2014 and from the north and Hezbollah, we want to put them in the position to have a very strong deterrent to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. 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