Bush Spends Half of &#36;75M Grant in Sept.
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President Bush burned through more than half of his &#36;75 million government grant to cover his general-election campaign costs in September, leaving him with just under &#36;37 million left for the final month before the Nov. 2 election.
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Whether as loan guarantees for a  shop in Ohio or a grant for a Florida power plant, the Bush  administration is showering hundreds of millions of dollars in  federal money on toss-up states in the presidential election.
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Fifty-three companies gave the maximum &#36;250,000 donation toward President Bush's inauguration this week.
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The Bush administration will ask Congress to increase funding to &#36;867 million in fiscal year 2006 for a plan to help reduce the risk of wildfires in federal forests, a senior administration official said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will seek $950 million in federal aid for the areas affected by the Asian tsunami, nearly tripling a previous commitment of $350 million that was announced when the administration was under fire for what critics called a sluggish response to the crisis.
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WASHINGTON -- Hoping to cement a positive part of his legacy, President Bush yesterday asked Congress to double the funding of the US global AIDS program to $30 billion over five years, which sets goals of helping support AIDS treatment of 2.5 million people.
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President Bush, who has pledged &#36;350 million in U.S. aid to help victims of Asian countries ravaged by the tsunami, has contributed &#36;10,000 from his personal funds to the relief effort, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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President Bush raised a total of &#36;260 million for the primary-election phase of his campaign, taking in &#36;18 million last month alone before accepting full government financing for the race's final two months.
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President Bush plans to ask Congress on Monday to rush about &#36;2.5 billion in additional aid to hurricane-battered Florida, administration officials said on Friday.
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Democrats are debating whether to approve $50 billion to $70 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, less than half of President Bush's $196 billion request but enough to keep the wars afloat for several more months.
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LONDON -- The US government is contributing $35 million of the half-billion dollars that the world's developed nations are donating to the tsunami relief effort, and many Americans believe -- as President Bush put it earlier this week -- that their country is being its typical ''generous, kindhearted" self.
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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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John Kerry started the final two weeks of his general-election campaign with a slight cash edge over President Bush, though each has less than a third of his &#36;75 million budget left.
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About &#36;92 million of the &#36;350 million that the Bush administration pledged for tsunami relief assistance has been spent so far, a U.S. government official said Friday.
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President Bush will ask Congress for &#36;2 billion to help victims of Hurricane Charley, the White House said Friday.
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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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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.