Pentagon’s Proposed $99.7 Billion Supplemental Budget
I love the way they bring it to $99.7billion …..just like a retail item for $9.99….it ain’t $10.00. OVERSIGHT OVERSIGHT OVERSIGHT. MAKE IT HAPPEN DEMS!!!!
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s new Joint Strike Fighter plane won’t be ready to see action for years. But that didn’t stop the Air Force from inserting two of the jets into the coming emergency-funding request for operations in Iraq.
The Pentagon’s supplemental budgets traditionally pay for war costs such as personnel, equipment repairs and ammunition. But as the Joint Strike Fighter request shows, the coming supplemental is being used by the military services for more than replacing what has been lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is being used to acquire future weapons that normally would be funded through the regular Pentagon budget.
The fighter-jet request, which was confirmed by a senior Air Force official, is part of the Pentagon’s proposed $99.7 billion war-fighting budget for the current fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. It comes on top of $70 billion in war funds already approved and the regular U.S. defense budget of $436.6 billion. The emergency supplemental budget has been cleared by the Pentagon and is awaiting approval by the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees funding requests for the White House. It is to be formally submitted to Congress after President Bush next month unveils the fiscal 2008 Pentagon budget request, which defense analysts expect to be nearly $470 billion.
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