Bush Promises to Step Up Iraq Rebuilding Spending
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President Bush, under election-year pressure from Democrats and some fellow Republicans over Iraq, promised on Saturday to step up the pace of spending on reconstruction contracts in that country despite the violence.
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The White House is ready to ask Congress for more money for President Bush's plan &#151; already hotly debated &#151; to send 21,500 new combat troops into Iraq.
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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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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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U.S. President George W. Bush is preparing to ask Congress for as much as $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a White House official.
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President Bush was poised to officially ask Congress Monday for an estimated &#36;82 billion to cover the costs of continuing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a myriad of other internationally related expenses, including training Iraqi security forces and aiding victims of the tsunami.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration plans to ask for between $80 billion and $100 billion to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year, rather than the $70 billion to $75 billion the White House privately told members of Congress before the election, according to Pentagon and White House officials.
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President George W. Bush said on Saturday that his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint on domestic spending while putting defense and war costs for Iraq and Afghanistan as the top priority.
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resident Bush sent a $2.9 trillion spending plan to a Democratic-controlled Congress on Monday, proposing to spend billions more to fight the war in Iraq while squeezing the rest of government to meet his goal of eliminating the deficit
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President Bush vowed on Thursday to adopt a new strategy for Iraq and outline it in a major speech soon as he made his first substantive response to a bipartisan panel's finding his Iraq policy has failed and time is running out for changing course.
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President Bush is sending Congress a $3 trillion spending blueprint that would provide a big boost to defense and protect his signature tax cuts.
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President George W. Bush will acknowledge on Monday that a slowing U.S. economy will lead to a higher budget deficit this year and next, as he unveils a $3 trillion fiscal 2009 spending plan that would boost military funding but nearly freeze many domestic programs.
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President George Bush is to honour those who have "dedicated their lives" to rebuilding New Orleans.
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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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Setting priorities for next year, the White House said Friday President Bush will push to cut back on the thousands of home-state projects that lawmakers slip into spending bills.
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President Bush said Tuesday a new plan to increase U.S. and Iraqi forces in the besieged capital of Baghdad will help quell rising violence that is threatening Iraq's transformation to a self-sustaining democracy.
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President Bush said he supports a $120 billion Iraq war spending bill on track to pass in Congress on Thursday, ending weeks of wrangling with congressional Democrats