Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates say the Pentagon needs to reorder its priorities.
The bill also contains $128 billion for Pentagon operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which would bring the total appropriated by Congress for those wars and other efforts to combat terrorism above $1 trillion.
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