Summary
One hundred and nine days after he first requested additional money to fund overseas military operations, President Bush finally signed the $120 billion emergency supplemental measure.
Part of the disagreement over the war spending stemmed from Congress including about $21 billion in extra spending, for such items as hurricane recovery, agriculture disaster relief and a children's health insurance program. But this claim is like a magician's patter to distract his audience from the sleight of hand as he pulls a coin out of thin air: Supplemental spending, "emergency" spending in particular, seems to be Mr. Bush's tool of choice for evading annual budget limits and increasing spending across the board.See the full content of this document
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Budgetary Sleight of Hand
Take for example, the funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Congressional Budget Office, says since September 11, 2001, the government has appropriated roughly $503 billion for the global war on terror - about $352 billion ...
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