Bush to Seek About $80 Bln for Military Operations
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The Bush administration plans to  announce as early as Tuesday that it will seek about $80  billion in new funding for military operations this year in  Iraq and Afghanistan, administration and congressional sources  said on Monday.
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A report from the Congressional Budget Office says President Bush's plan for a troop increase in Iraq could cost up to $27 billion for a 12-month deployment.
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With the GOP united, President Bush is poised to get the war funding he wants.
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President George W. Bush will soon  seek about $100 billion in additional emergency funds for the  wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report on  Wednesday by Democratic staffers for two key panels in the U.S.  House of Representatives.
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The Bush administration will ask the Congress next week for $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and related operations for part of the 2009 fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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President Bush was sending Congress  on Monday an $82 billion package to fund U.S. military  operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing the total for both  conflicts to nearly $300 billion.
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The recent announcement that the Bush administration will update the deployment of 70,000 American troops should be viewed primarily through a military prism, though there are political and economic ...
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President Bush asked Congress for $46 billion more to bankroll wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and said he wants the money approved by Christmas. The fighting in Iraq, in its fifth year, already has cost more than $455 billion.
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President Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to raise military spending by $700 billion -- much of it for the Iraq war -- and curb domestic programs from health to education.
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President Bush requested $46 billion more today to pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other security priorities, bringing the total request pending before Congress to $196.4 billion and setting the stage for another politically charged battle over the course of the war.
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TALLIN, Nov. 27--President Bush will seek fresh troops and equipment for the fight in Afghanistan and fewer restrictions on how they can be used when he sits down this week with NATO allies to review the state of the dangerous mission there, according to senior U.S. officials.
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President George W. Bush's administration is considering an individual tax rebate of up to 800 dollars as a short term measure to help boost the sagging US economy, a media report said Friday.
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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 Bush and Congress are headed toward another showdown on war spending, this time sparring over nearly $190 billion the Pentagon says is needed to keep combat in Iraq afloat for another year.
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The Bush administration intends to seek the emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, officials said on Monday.
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The Bush administration will ask Congress next week for $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other related operations for part of the 2009 fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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President Bush asked Congress on Saturday for $3.2 billion to pay for at least 4,000 extra combat support troops and military police forces that commanders told the president they need in Iraq.