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Obama must make new budget request for Iraq troops: Thornberry
Source: Reuters
Politics | Mon Jul 11, 2016 11:54am EDT
Obama must make new budget request for Iraq troops: Thornberry
The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee said on Monday that President Barack Obama must ask Congress for additional funds to pay the deployment of more troops to Iraq, as Congress and the White House debate defense spending amid mandatory budget cuts.
"Added to the President's Afghanistan announcement last week, the United States will now be deploying thousands more troops than we have budgeted for in the President's budget request," Representative Mac Thornberry said in a statement.
"Those deployments can only be fully supported through a supplemental budget request," Thornberry said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Monday that Washington would send 560 additional troops to assist Iraqi forces in an expected push on the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul. Obama said on July 6 he would keeping 8,400 troops in Afghanistan through the end of his presidency in January.
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Obama must make new budget request for Iraq troops: Thornberry
The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee said on Monday that President Barack Obama must ask Congress for additional funds to pay the deployment of more troops to Iraq, as Congress and the White House debate defense spending amid mandatory budget cuts.
"Added to the President's Afghanistan announcement last week, the United States will now be deploying thousands more troops than we have budgeted for in the President's budget request," Representative Mac Thornberry said in a statement.
"Those deployments can only be fully supported through a supplemental budget request," Thornberry said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Monday that Washington would send 560 additional troops to assist Iraqi forces in an expected push on the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul. Obama said on July 6 he would keeping 8,400 troops in Afghanistan through the end of his presidency in January.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-congress-idUSKCN0ZR1Y2
