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President Obama recently unveiled his last – and largest – budgetary wish list for how he'd like to see the U.S. spend its money in fiscal 2017. The FY 2017 budget proposal is his eighth presidential budget request. In it, Obama calls for a record $4.1 trillion in spending, with notable cost increases proposed for clean energy development, medical research and fighting cancer, defense spending, and battling climate change.