Border funds highlight Bush security budget
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The Bush administration proposed new spending of more than $600 million to tighten U.S. borders with fencing along the frontier with Mexico and add patrol agents and more beds for detained illegal immigrants.
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The White House asked for more money and employees to secure U.S. borders and proposed hiking airline passenger fees to cover some of the increases for homeland security.
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President Bush plans to ask Congress to spend more to crack down on undocumented workers and arrest and deport illegal immigrants. But he wants to fund only a fraction of the new Border Patrol agents called for in a bill he signed last year.
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President Bush will ask Congress for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs, The Associated Press has learned
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THE Federal Government will spend $591 million on boosting security at Australian missions overseas, providing better protection for staff and visitors.
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A guide to the new Bush budget's winners and losers
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President George W. Bush said on  Saturday his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint  on domestic spending while making defense and war costs for  Iraq and Afghanistan the top priority.
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After initially insisting it had  enough money, the Bush administration has begun tapping its $25  billion emergency fund for the Iraq war to prepare for a major  troop rotation and intense fighting this fall, administration  and congressional officials said on Tuesday.
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The &#36;419 billion defense budget that President Bush submitted to Congress on Monday would buy fewer planes, ships and submarines than the Pentagon previously planned, but it puts extra emphasis on anti-terror commandos and expands the Army and Marine Corps.
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The US is to spend $1m to help governments in Central America and Mexico combat violent gangs.
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The Bush administration,  facing mounting violence in Iraq and demands for upgraded equipment, is assembling a funding package for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that could surge beyond earlier estimates to as much as &#36;75 billion to &#36;100 billion, congressional sources and experts said on Thursday.
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TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 26 -- More than a third of the Bush administration's proposed counternarcotics aid package for Mexico would be spent on aerial surveillance and the rapid deployment of troops, according to a breakdown of the plan.
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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona  - President George W. Bush signed a law on Wednesday that will pay for hundreds of miles of new fences along the U.S.-Mexico border, a move against illegal immigration that Republicans had sought before next month's congressional elections.
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Cybersecurity will be a major focus in President Bush's 2008 federal IT budget.
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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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President Bush's &#36;2.5 trillion budget is shaping up as his most austere, trying to restrain spending across a wide swath of government from popular farm subsidies to poor people's health programs.
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OVERVIEW: In his 2006 budget request of some &#36;2.5 trillion going to Congress on Monday, President Bush will propose holding down growth in defense spending and cutting dollars for some domestic programs to cope with large deficits.