Bush Seeks More Than $80 Billion for Iraq, Afghan
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The White House said on Tuesday it  will seek more than $80 billion in new funding for military  operations this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, shattering  initial cost estimates and pushing the total for both conflicts  to almost $300 billion so far.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost at least $190 billion in 2008, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, making it the most expensive year in the wars since they were begun by President George W. Bush.
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Keeping troops in Iraq for another year and a half will cost nearly a quarter-trillion dollars &#151; about $800 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. &#151; under the budget President Bush will submit to Congress Monday.
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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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President Bush on Monday will seek $245 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while boosting other military spending and curbing domestic programs, setting the stage for a big battle with Democrats over funding priorities.
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The Bush administration Tuesday said it is reallocating nearly $3.5 billions in aid money for Iraq to bolster security and generate new jobs in advance of elections to be held there in January.
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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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President Bush will seek $419.3 billion for the Defense Department in the fiscal year that begins this October, a 4.8 percent increase over this year's spending, not counting the cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Defense Department document obtained by The Washington Post.
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President Bush challenged Congress to another clash over the direction of the Iraq war yesterday as he asked lawmakers for $46 billion more to pay for overseas military operations and insisted that they approve it by the end of the year.
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President George W. Bush asked Congress on Monday for $189.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another huge request that faces deep skepticism from lawmakers opposed to prolonging the Iraq conflict.
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The Bush administration on Monday requested an additional $42.3 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the 2008 request for total war funding to $189.3 billion.
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President George W. Bush will ask Congress for $99.7 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for rest of fiscal year 2007 and more than $145 billion for fiscal year 2008, a Bush administration official said on Friday.
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With violence on the decline in Iraq but on the upswing in Afghanistan, President Bush is facing new pressure from the U.S. military to accelerate a troop drawdown in Iraq and bulk up force levels in Afghanistan, according to senior U.S. officials.
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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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President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears to reflect increasing administration confidence that it can fend off congressional calls for a rapid drawdown of U.S. forces.
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US President George W. Bush has vowed to seek more funding for a sweeping plan to battle cocaine production and defeat heavily armed rebels in Colombia.
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President Bush asked Congress on Monday to provide &#36;81.9 billion more for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for other U.S. efforts overseas, shoving the total price tag for the conflicts and anti-terror fight past &#36;300 billion.