Increase In War Funding Sought

Increase In War Funding Sought



Bush to Request $70 Billion More

By Jonathan Weisman and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 26, 2004; Page A01



The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion since the invasion of Iraq early last year, Pentagon and congressional officials said yesterday.

White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton emphasized that final decisions on the supplemental spending request will not be made until shortly before the request is sent to Congress. That may not happen until early February, when President Bush submits his budget for fiscal 2006, assuming he wins reelection.


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The Treasury continues to bleed green. Of course this request will not be made until after the election. If one remembers the Bushites made an issue of the fact that Kerry said that the Mid eastern adventure cost 200 billion when at that point we had only expended a mere I20 billion.
Do you think that calls for another tax cuts for the rich and additional corporate welfare. And a comenserate cut in domestic funding.