Pentagon to Refine FY-08 War Costs at the Very End of September

By Jason Sherman / August 1, 2007 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon plans to wait until the proverbial eleventh hour in the current fiscal year to disclose exactly how many additional billions of dollars it requires on top of the $147 billion it has already sought for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a move that will stretch debates about war funding into at least October. Defense Secretary Gordon England told the House Budget Committee yesterday that the Defense Department will not begin to give final form to its FY-08 "global...

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