Supplemental Economics

Just posted: An amendment to the House Appropriations Committee's $35.5 billion fiscal year 2010 supplemental spending bill, $37.12 billion of which would support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The amendment itself includes money allocated for "education jobs and border security," according to a committee summary of the legislative language. To fund those programs, House appropriators want to take money out of the following Defense Department-related activities:

• $2 billion in funding appropriated as early as 2006 to the Defense Department.
• $500 million in funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for military construction projects that achieved bid savings.
• $262 million in Recovery Act funding provided to the Department of Defense.
• $177 million in funding appropriated to the Defense Department for HMMWVs they no longer plan to purchase.
• $116 million appropriated for the Non-Line of Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS) which the Army has terminated.
• $100 million appropriated to the Army for Operations and Maintenance, because of slow execution of some programs within the account
• $87 million appropriated for SINCGARS radios and other Army procurement programs that have not been spent as quickly as planned.

The bill could be taken up by the full House sometime today.