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Such cuts would cause irreparable damage to our communities by gutting the programs every single American relies on, DeLauro said in a statement. Those proposals are unrealistic, unsustainable, and unconscionable.

House Republicans are just beginning to look at how they're going to write fiscal 2024 spending bills to the level envisioned by McCarthy and conservatives in the conference, including members of the hard-right Freedom Caucus.

House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, has instructed her subcommittee chairs to look closely at their bills for areas to cut, according to State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Mario Diaz-Balart. However, the dozen subcommittee "cardinals" have not yet been given theirtargets to cut to since the overall discretionary topline figure has not yet been established, he said.

The instruction from Kay Granger has been, in essence, to scrub every penny, every department, every agency, dollar, every penny spent, to try to find savings, to try to figure out where we can cut spending in a responsible way, Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said Monday.

Diaz-Balart said the increase in nondefense discretionary spending in recent years has been insane, and said he believes appropriators can get nondefense discretionary spending down to fiscal 2022 levels. On the other hand, he pointed out, many Republicans want to increase defense funding.

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