Then what is a Line-Item? A Line-Item is included in each ensuing budget through the life-time of the Program and can only be removed by an Act of Congress. Dems can be unpredictable about Defense Budget requests but Dem Senators in NY are a given and Schumer, Gillabrand (or replacements) are unlikely to allow anyone to take an axe to a NY company...

LINE ITEMS.  Budgets are approved at the line item level. Line item numbers are 
 sequential within appropriations. The President requests and the Congress     
 approves (or disapproves) budget authority for each line. A line item can     
 represent an entire program. But usually a program has several line items, for: 
 RDT&E, procurement, spares, modifications, etc.