Second, would hitting the overall budget limit affect program operations?

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He proposes a one-year freeze on all federal discretionary spending outside of defense and veterans benefits, and he wants to limit overall federal spending growth to 2.4%, about one-third the annual increases since 2000.

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However, the council said it had been able to take advantage of new flexibilities to limit the overall reduction in expenditure on the programme to 10.4%.

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