President Donald Trump spent part of Sunday on his golf course at Mar-a-Lago in Florida with an old foe — and now a new friend — to talk policy. And perhaps other things as well.

The president and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) spent the game talking taxes and national security funding, according to White House spokesman Raj Shah.

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Military funding will be a key issue in the upcoming budget talks, which are ongoing. Fiscal year 2018 began October 1, but Trump has been signing temporary spending bills. The president and congressional Republicans hope to sign a deal extending government funding through the rest of the fiscal year.

For Trump, however, it was also time to do one of the things he’s loved to do as president: play golf. Golf News Net reports that it was the 83rd time Trump has hit the links, and it was the 82nd time he was visiting a Trump Organization golf course, according to GNN.

But GNN’s count isn’t official: The White House does not reveal every presidential golf outing.

Sen. Graham previously played golf twice with Trump before Sunday. Graham, who was one of Trump’s arch-foes during the 2016 GOP presidential primaries, disclosed on Election Day last year that he did not even vote for Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

But the two have increasingly made nice since Trump took office. Graham has also defended Trump publicly from time to time, while sometimes rebuking the president for a tweet or a statement he’s put out.

Trump’s first golf encounter with a top congressional leader was with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, (R-Tenn.). While Corker spoke positively about the experience, the time on the links didn’t dissuade him from thereafter becoming one of Trump’s most insistent Senate GOP critics, as Politico reported in October.

Trump is eager for the House and the Senate to reconcile their tax reform measures and send the final version to his desk.

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Trump is eager for the House and the Senate to reconcile their tax reform measures and send the final version to his desk. The Republican tax legislation will cut $1.5 trillion in taxes over the next decade, and cut the top corporate tax rate to 20 percent. It will be the biggest tax reform in 31 years.

Still, with pressing tax and budget issues, the president will get heat for golfing again.

During the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, Trump ridiculed former President Barack Obama for golfing so much. But with 83 trips to the greens thus far as president, Trump may be on pace to overtake Obama before his four-year term is concluded.

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Obama played golf 333 times over eight years, according to CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller, a longtime White House statistics expert.

Searching online for the phrase “the president played golf today” brings up 31.8 million results. “Trump played golf today” brings up 8.5 million results. There is even an Internet site, Trump Golf Count, that tries to tracks the details.

PoliZette White House writer Jim Stinson can be reached at [email protected].

(photo credit, article images: Lindsey Graham, CC BY-SA 3.0, by Gage Skidmore)