Congressional leaders passed a deal to raise discretionary spending caps by nearly $ 300 billion, along with other measures, on Feb. 9. (breakingviews.com)
We welcome the bipartisan budget agreement to raise defense and non-defense discretionary spending caps for two years... - Rush Holt, chief executive officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). (forceforscience.org)
In the end, thanks to the recent budget deal that lifted federal discretionary spending caps, NOAA was granted an overall funding boost, which trickled down to core research as well as key satellite development funding. (aaas.org)