House appropriators seeking to trim Bush’s non-war defense fund requests

TheHill.com ^ | 5 June 2007 | Mike Soraghan

[K-oneTexas]

House appropriators seeking to trim Bush’s non-war defense fund requests

By Mike Soraghan

 

June 05, 2007

 

House appropriators are seeking to trim President Bush’s requests for non-war defense spending and foreign operations.

But they want to increase social spending in the Labor-Health and Human Services spending bill by almost 9 percent more than Bush requested.

The Appropriations Committee allocations, obtained by The Hill, show the sharp differences between Democrats and Bush on spending.

Democrats are still proposing an increase in defense discretionary spending over last year, just not as much as Bush wants. Bush had proposed a 10 percent increase, to $463 billion. Appropriators have allocated $459 billion, 0.8 percent less than Bush’s proposal.

But the biggest difference is in the “Labor-H” bill, where Democrats call for $153 billion in spending, or 8.6 percent more than Bush asked for. Bush had sought a 2 percent cut in the budget.

Under the allocations, State and Foreign Operations would be 2 percent less than Bush proposed.

[K-oneTexas]

Without the 'earmarks', err PORK, of course.

[johnny7]

Elections have consequences...

[pnh102]

More proof that the Democrat party doesn't support the troops, nor does it take national security seriously.

Of course, the government dependents who vote for them year after year always get taken care of.

[tobyhill]

It’s called a veto and that would effectively shut down the whole government except for essential functions like the military.

[K-oneTexas]

Unfortunately, I do not foresee a ‘Veto’. Compromise seems to be the word of the day, at the very least between now and the elections in ‘08.

[tobyhill]

While I don’t like President Bush’s spending habits one thing he stands firm on, defense spending and if the congress doesn’t give him that money he wants he will veto and get 34 Senators to sustain the veto.

[yoe]

Labor-Health and Human Services

Same 'ol, same' ol...we have billions in these departments already and the product remains the same. Uneducated children; fat labor representives, and human services are piggy backed to make jobs and keep welfare alive.