Because Congress never approved a $10 billion emergency war fund as part of the fiscal year 2003 Pentagon budget, the Defense Department will have to ask Congress for a supplemental appropriation to pay for troop deployments and operations in the Persian Gulf region, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today. House and Senate appropriators said they did not approve the $10 billion emergency response fund the Bush administration said was needed to pay for the global war on terrorism because the...
