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DEFENSE DEPARTMENT - $588.3 billion
The $588.3 billion in Pentagon spending for 2009 that President Bush proposed to Congress yesterday includes only part of the cost of fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.See the full content of this document
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How Agencies Share Bush's $3.1 Trillion Plan
Mr. Bush asked for $70 billion as an "emergency allowance" for war costs for the first part of the budget year, which begins Oct. 1, and the White House said, without citing a specific figure, that it would request more for 2009 "once the specific needs of our troops are better known."
If the current rate of war spending is a guide, the additional request for 2009 is likely to exceed $100 billion.Mr. Bush is awaiting recommendations from his top commanders and from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in April on how much to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year.The $588.3 billion total requested falls into three main categories: $515.4 billion in Defense Department spending, $70 billion in initial war costs and $2.9 billion in certain fixed Penta...See the full content of this document
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