There's not too much information about what will be in President Obama's next State of the Union, but it apparently include a proposed
seven percent discretionary budget increase:
President Barack Obama will ask Congress for as much as $68 billion more than current budget limits in fiscal 2016, according to two people familiar with the administration’s proposal.
The request sets up a fight with the Republican-led House and Senate over whether to reverse part of the spending limits that Congress and the White House agreed to in a series of fiscal deals earlier this decade.
Those spending cuts would be
sequestration, the horrible, rotten across-the-board budget cuts that were deemed so disruptive and damaging that all sane legislators would come together to pass a more rational, bipartisan budget rather than subject the nation to such a stupid idea. We all know how that worked out.
The new money would mean as much as $34 billion each for the national security and domestic sides of what will be a budget of almost $4 trillion. It will be detailed in the budget plan Obama will send to Congress Feb. 2 and amounts to an almost 7 percent increase over discretionary-spending levels prescribed by automatic cuts known as sequestration originally voted into law in 2011, according to the people, who asked for anonymity because the budget has not been released.
As to what pressure Obama and House and Senate Democrats can bring to bear to get such an increase passed, we'll see.