Obama to seek $83.4 billion for Iraq, Afghan wars

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Originally Posted by classicman

The discussion was changed Bruce, as usual. My opinion was that this is simply adding money to fight a war without it being in the budget. That is all. Which part of that is not clear?

This year's budget was made last year, under Bush, who did not want the wars to be in the normal budget.

Obama wants the wars to be in the normal budget, and they are in the first budget under his administration- the 2010 budget. He can't retroactively put this year's wars' worth of spending in the budget passed last year. Or, I suppose, the way to do that would be through a supplemental. Which is what he is doing.