Bush budget proposes &#36;624.6B for defense
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President Bush's 2008 budget request includes $624.6 billion in defense spending and marks the first time he has offered an estimate of how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost a year in advance.
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In the nation's first-ever $3 trillion budget, President Bush seeks to seal his legacy of promoting a strong defense to fight terrorism and tax cuts to spur the economy
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The Bush administration wants Congress' permission to shift nearly &#36;3.5 billion of the &#36;18.4 billion in Iraqi reconstruction aid to security and faster economic growth, documents submitted to lawmakers show.
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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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President Bush will propose a 3.1 percent pay raise for members of the armed forces and a 2.3 percent increase for civilian federal employees under the fiscal 2006 budget plan the White House will release on Monday.
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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.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. would bear the brunt of proposed cuts in U.S. weapons purchases totaling $30 billion over the next six years, according to the summary from a Pentagon budget document made available to Reuters Monday. -Reuters
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress Wednesday to approve the Bush administration's request for &#36;5.8 billion to fight terrorism and the slightly more than &#36;1 billion to help bankroll United Nations' peacekeeping missions around the world.
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Congress sent President Bush a &#36;388 billion legislative package Tuesday that covers the spending of every federal agency but the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
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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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Economic assumptions from President Bush's proposed 2008 budget:
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Spending blueprint that would provide a big boost to defense, protect president's signature tax cuts.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 13--The secretary of defense has revised his budget request for weapons destruction programs in Pueblo and Kentucky, asking for another $54 million in the 2008 federal budget.   Sen.
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President Bush plans to send Congress a request early next year to finance wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and operations against terrorism that could reach &#36;75 billion, congressional aides said Tuesday.
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President Bush's budget will propose cuts of up to 40 percent in a &#36;4.7 billion program that disperses development grants to communities across the United States, congressional aides said Wednesday.
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President Bushâs request increased the amount of the proposed spending by $46 billion over the amount already requested this year.
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President George W. Bush on Monday proposed more than $700 billion in new spending for the military -- much of it for the Iraq war -- in a budget that would restrain domestic programs from health to education.