Defense and Homeland Security spending increases.

[cornermouse]

NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/politics/07budget.html

The main proposals in the budget include:

An increase in military spending of $28.5 billion, or 6.9 percent, to $439.3 billion, and an increase in financing for programs directly related to domestic security, about a third of which are outside the Department of Homeland Security, of 3.3 percent, to $33.1 billion.

A reduction in spending on all other annually appropriated domestic programs of $2.2 billion, or one-half of 1 percent, to $398.3 billion. That reduction encompasses cutbacks in the budgets of 12 cabinet agencies, including education, housing and environmental protection...

...A call for Mr. Bush's tax cuts, which will expire in coming years, to be made permanent, reducing projected federal revenues by $178.6 billion over the next five years and $1.35 trillion over the next decade.

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CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/06/budget.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

They also charged that Bush was understating future budget deficits by leaving out major items such as the true costs of the Iraq war and a long-term fix to keep the alternative minimum tax from hitting more middle class taxpayers.

"It explodes deficits, but then conceals them by providing only five years of numbers and leaving out large costs," said Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. "The result will be more debt passed on to our children."...

...The biggest spending increase would go to the military, a 6.9 percent rise to $439.3 billion for 2007, a figure that does not include the costs of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration said last week it will ask Congress for an additional $120 billion to cover fighting for the rest of this year and the early part of 2007 while seeking another $18 billion in hurricane relief this year.

While the Department of Homeland Security would also see an increase for 2007, nine of the 15 Cabinet agencies would see outright cuts in their discretionary spending for next year with the biggest percentage reductions occurring in the departments of Transportation, Justice and Agriculture.

[wakeme2008]

1. And I would bet the Troops

do not see "military, a 6.9 percent rise" in pay... :grr:

[cornermouse]

2. Count on it.

[OneBlueSky]

3. I read somewhere that the US "defense" budget is greater . . .

than the defense budgets of all other nations combined . . . whether true or not, a half TRILLION is w-a-a-a-a-a-y out of proportion to any perceived threat -- and to reality . . . and it doesn't even include appropriations for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (not to mention Iran and/or Syria) . . . I'd sure like to know where all that money is going . . .

[cornermouse]

4. Yep. When all is said and done, Afghanistan and Iraq are

3rd world countries. Their ability to threaten us was not really all the huge.