Did you know there's another 'emergency' supplemental in the works?

We just passed a $37.476 billion 'emergency' supplemental in May of this year to keep the occupations going. That's in addition to the $130 billion that was allocated in the 2010 military budget. Shades of bu$h. . . .


Gates: Obama not afraid to veto defense bill
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jun 16, 2010 12:46:30 EDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that lawmakers should not underestimate the Obama administration’s resolve to eliminate wasteful spending, and he renewed a vow to recommend a veto of defense legislation if key programs are not dropped.

“Let me be very clear,” Gates said in testimony before the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee. “I will continue to strongly recommend that the president veto any legislation that sustains the continuations of the C-17 or the F-35 extra engine.”

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“Let me be explicit,” he said. “It would be a mistake to believe the president would accept these unneeded programs simply because the authorization or appropriations legislation includes provisions important to him and this administration.”

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Gates also said he is “increasingly concerned” that Congress has yet to pass a supplemental war funding bill to pay for ongoing operations. “If the supplemental is not enacted by the July 4th congressional recess, we will have to begin planning to curtail defense operations,” he said, in a carefully worded threat that speaks of preparing for cuts but not necessarily making them.

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The Army will dip into peacetime operating funds so it can continue with supplemental war funding until August, Gates said. At that point, it also will run out of base budget money and could be forced to furlough civilian employees and “have people on active duty we cannot pay.”



unhappycamper comment: Wowsa! $167.476 billion to keep the occupations going. Ka ching.

I shouldn't be surprised.

thank goodness the military, which gets 51% of our tax dollars is getting that money.

Because all those evil people out of work would just piss it away on food and bills.

The House has to pass one and they have to agree on it, then there will be another vote. There's no supplemental yet.

"This is the last planned war supplemental." - Pelosi 2009

:hurts:

"Emergency- what emergency? I have to sell my possessions to pay my power bill and they call that an emergency"

Bring the troops home and let him do it...he might get more done in one month than they did in eight years...