Bush Proposes Government-Wide Cuts to Provide $6.3 Billion Boost for Iraq, BRAC

By Jason Sherman / March 12, 2007 at 5:00 AM
The Bush administration is seeking to revise key parts of its fiscal year 2007 military spending plans by asking Congress to take funds from across the federal budget and use them to boost spending by $6.3 billion in support of operations in Iraq, as well as to implement key recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. In a March 9 revision to the Defense Department's fiscal year 2007 emergency supplemental request, the White House proposed Congress cut $3.2...

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