Bush seeks $100 bln for Iraq in 2007
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President George W. Bush will ask Congress for $99.7 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for rest of fiscal year 2007 and more than $145 billion for fiscal year 2008, a Bush administration official said on Friday.
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After initially insisting it had  enough money, the Bush administration has begun tapping its $25  billion emergency fund for the Iraq war to prepare for a major  troop rotation and intense fighting this fall, administration  and congressional officials said on Tuesday.
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The Bush administration will ask Congress next week for $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other related operations for part of the 2009 fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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The Bush administration plans to  announce as early as Tuesday that it will seek about $80  billion in new funding for military operations this year in  Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing the total for both conflicts to  almost $300 billion so far.
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The U.S. House of Representatives broke a four-month deadlock with President George W. Bush on Thursday and approved $100 billion in new funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without a timetable for withdrawing combat troops.
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The Bush administration will ask the Congress next week for $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and related operations for part of the 2009 fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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Description: The Bush administration is seeking more leeway from Congress on spending in Iraq. The administration wants to shift $3.
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President Bush said he supports a $120 billion Iraq war spending bill on track to pass in Congress on Thursday, ending weeks of wrangling with congressional Democrats
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House Democrats are pushing to add billions of dollars to President Bush's $93.4 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, including $900 million for troops suffering from brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The Bush administration,  facing mounting violence in Iraq and demands for upgraded equipment, is assembling a funding package for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that could surge beyond earlier estimates to as much as &#36;75 billion to &#36;100 billion, congressional sources and experts said on Thursday.
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Democratic lawmakers and staffers privately say they're closing in on a broad budget deal that would give President Bush as much as $70 billion in new war funding. The arrangement would lack a Democratic provision for most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by December 2008.
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They're seeking to sway Bush's war policy when his request for $93.4 billion comes up next week.
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A divided U.S. Congress on Thursday approved $100 billion to keep fighting the war in Iraq, as Democrats pledged to resurrect failed attempts to force President George W. Bush to withdraw troops.
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US President George W Bush seeks to boost US aid to the tsunami-hit nations to a total of $950m (Â£511m).
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President Bush was sending Congress  on Monday an $82 billion package to fund U.S. military  operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing the total for both  conflicts to nearly $300 billion.
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Think of the uses of $300 billion, the annual gap between what taxpayers owe and what they pay. It would more than cover the federal deficit for a year or the extra money President Bush wants in 2007 and 2008 for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The plan was bold: By tying President Bush's $100 billion war request to strict standards of troop safety and readiness, Democrats believed they could grab hold of Iraq war policy while forcing Republicans to defend sending troops into battle without the necessary training or equipment.