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House appropriators seeking to trim Bush’s non-war defense fund requests |
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By Mike Soraghan
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Posted: 06/05/07 07:57 PM [ET] |
House appropriators are seeking to trim President Bush’s requests for non-war defense spending and foreign operations.
But they want to increase social spending in the Labor-Health and Human Services spending bill by almost 9 percent more than Bush requested.
The Appropriations Committee allocations, obtained by The Hill, show the sharp differences between Democrats and Bush on spending.
Democrats are still proposing an increase in defense discretionary spending over last year, just not as much as Bush wants. Bush had proposed a 10 percent increase, to $463 billion. Appropriators have allocated $459 billion, 0.8 percent less than Bush’s proposal.
But the biggest difference is in the “Labor-H” bill, where Democrats call for $153 billion in spending, or 8.6 percent more than Bush asked for. Bush had sought a 2 percent cut in the budget.
Under the allocations, State and Foreign Operations would be 2 percent less than Bush proposed.
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