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Pentagon officials are scheduled to discuss the proposed budget in more detail on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elaine McCusker, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon comptroller in the Trump administration, argued the Pentagon budget should be at least $882 billion for FY24. 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