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Congress and the administration took positive steps to stabilize funding for fiscal years 2018, 2019, and 2020 through the Bipartisan Budget Agreement of 2018, while this allayed the most serious concerns about a return to the damaging levels of the BCA, more will be needed in the years to come to ensure that Americas armed services are properly sized, equipped, trained, and ready to meet the missions they are called upon to fulfill.