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President Reagan Submits Fiscal Year 1985 Budget to Congress

Reagan transmitted his administration's Fiscal Year 1985 federal budget to Congress, proposing higher defense spending alongside cuts to many domestic programs.

The submission framed the administration's priorities for the year, set up major budgetary and ideological fights with Congress over deficits and domestic program funding, and shaped fiscal policy debates in 1984.

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