September 27, 2007

War-Funding Request Rises; Dems Ponder Delay

Even as the House approved stopgap funding yesterday to keep the federal government operating beyond Monday, the Bush administration upped its emergency war-funding request to $192.8 billion and counting. Increasingly frustrated by the impasse over spending bills as well as a lack of specificity from the White House on its amended war budget, Democrats are considering delaying the supplemental request until early next year. "It is being discussed," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., confirmed.

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