spending in fiscal year 2024, which allots 886 billion for defense and 704 billion in non-defense spending. now, speaker johnson is touting 16 billion in spending cuts to offset discretionary spending levels, and he highlights two key concessions made by democrats. the first is cutting an additional ten billion dollars in irs funding, as well as six billion dollars in covid era funds, which the white house strongly opposed. so, he's touting these as winds for republicans, but that doesn't mean that this is a done deal. my colleague ali vitali, as you've seen today, is on the campaign trail and chip roy said that he doesn't like what he's hearing, regarding these top line numbers. we are already getting a little bit of republican opposition, but now that this top line is set, that is good news for progress to avoid this