Blue Herald
25
Sep
TOP U.S. ARMY OFFICER WITHHOLDS BUDGET
by QuestionGirl

Looks like they’re sick of ole Rummy, too………

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) — The U.S. Army`s chief of staff has refused to file a budget plan after telling the secretary of Defense that global commitments require billions to maintain.

U.S. Army Gen. Peter Schoomaker reportedly withheld the 2008 budget plan past the Aug. 15 deadline after the White House and Congress carried out a series of cuts to the service`s budget over the past four months, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

Schoomaker had previously told U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that troop levels in Iraq could not be maintained without a reworking of the budget.

‘There`s no sense in us submitting a budget that we can`t execute, a broken budget,’ Schoomaker said in a recent Washington address.

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