Cost Of Cheney’s Executive Office: $4.75 Million

[kpete]

Cost Of Cheney’s Executive Office: $4.75 Million
Reacting to the Office of the Vice President’s assertion that it is not an “entity within the executive branch,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) will introduce an amendment this week to cut off funding to Cheney’s office. Last night on MSNBC, he was asked how much money is spent on Vice President Cheney for an executive office he claims he’s not apart of:

MATTHEWS: Do you know, Congressman, how much money — how much money is spent by the taxpayer to give this guy a huge operations staff, a huge policy staff? He’s got travel all over the world. Do you know how big a budget he has right now?

EMANUEL: He has a residence. He has an entire operation that supports him as vice president. And then he also has, as you said, the travel. I mean, it’s in the millions of dollars.

Now we have a number. Roll Call reports today that President Bush has requested $4.75 million in fiscal 2008 to fund the Vice President’s operations (parts of which are housed, notably, in the Executive Office Building.)

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/26/cheney-475million/
UPDATE: The White House budget request is HERE.
http://origin.www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy08/pdf/appendix/eop.pdf

[ixion]

1. for someone not in the executive branch, the word 'executive' sure does seem to

wind up being used frequently when referring to lord cheney.

[liberal N proud]

2. If he is not part of the executive branch, then he should move his office

out of the executive office building.
The sewer would be a nice place.

[mediaman007]

3. That's it...Don't fund him through Bush*, make Cheney get his money

through whatever other branch of government he claims to be part of!