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This total spending is $6.5 billion less than what the Trump administration had requested. This difference marks the largest shortfall in intelligence budget requests over the 14 years for which figures have been published."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Congress appropriated $78.1 billion for the National Intelligence Program in fiscal year 2026. The Department of War allocated $30.9 billion to military intelligence for the same fiscal year. The total of these two figures equals the $109 billion record spending."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on reporting details"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The digests from The Daily Sentinel-Press stated that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported Congress appropriated $78.1 billion to the National Intelligence Program for fiscal 2026, and the Department of War put the Military Intelligence budget at $30.9 billion. 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