Bush seeks more war funding
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President Bush asked for billions of dollars in new spending for the Iraq war on Monday, as car bombs killed 24 people in Baghdad and its besieged residents awaited a crackdown on sectarian violence.
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President George W. Bush and his generals appealed on Friday for more time to allow his troop increase to work in Iraq, but a U.S. Senate ally said September was still pivotal for evaluating the strategy.
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President Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to approve $700 billion in new military spending -- much of it for the Iraq war -- and to curb many domestic programs.
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President Bush asks for funds to reward countries that "took risks" to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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President Bush's defense budget request of $481.4 billion -- an 11 percent boost over last year -- pushes U.S. defense spending to levels not seen since the Reagan-era buildup of the 1980s.
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President George W Bush faces fresh pressure over his Iraq policy as the US Senate debates war funding.
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President Bush's $81.9 billion request for war and aid to U.S. allies would help start a law school in Afghanistan, improve the issuance of driver's licenses in Ukraine and build water treatment facilities in ...
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The Bush administration will  announce as early as Tuesday that it will seek about $80  billion in new funding for military operations this year in  Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing the total for both conflicts to  almost $300 billion so far.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush sent a $2.90 trillion spending plan to a Democratic-controlled Congress on Monday, proposing a big increase in military spending, including billions more to fight the war in Iraq, while squeezing the rest of government to meet his goal of eliminating the deficit in five...
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The Bush administration, faced with  a growing insurgency and record fuel costs, plans early next  year to seek $50 billion to $75 billion in emergency funding  for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration  and congressional officials said on Tuesday.
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BEFORE the dust has settled over the election, President Bush is preparing to ask Congress for up to $75billion more to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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President Bush is making a renewed push to allow the government to spend food aid money to buy crops in poor countries
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The Bush administration is seeking  about $80 billion in new funding for military operations this  year in Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing the total for both  conflicts to almost $300 billion so far.
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President Bush will send Congress a $2.9 trillion spending request Monday that seeks billions of dollars more to fight the Iraq war and tries to restrain the spiraling cost of the government's big health care programs.
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U.S. President George W. Bush and his generals appealed on Friday for more time to allow his troop increase to work in Iraq, but a key Senate ally said September was still pivotal for evaluating the strategy.
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President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that the U.S. Congress must fund the additional troops he is sending to Iraq as part of a strategy that Democrats, who are in the majority, and some Republicans have opposed.
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President Bush asks for funds to reward countries that 'took risks' to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.