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Bush insists on sending more fund to Iraq
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Source: CCTV.com | 02-07-2007 09:34
Special Report: Iraq in Transition |
US President George W. Bush has sent an almost three trillion dollar spending plan to the Democrat-controlled Congress. It includes a sharp rise in military spending and less money to help the poor.
In his budget, Bush plans to spend billions more dollars on his war in Iraq.
The president insisted this was necessary.
Bush said, "Our priority is to protect the American people. I strongly believe Congress needs to listen to a budget which has no tax increase, and a budget, because of fiscal discipline, that can be balanced in five years."
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The budget plan was widely attacked by Democrats.
Kent Conrad, US senator, said, "I would characterise this proposal as filled with debt and deception, it's disconnected from reality and it continues to move America in the wrong direction."
Bush is seeking a Pentagon budget of more than 624-billion-dollars for 2008, more than one-fifth of the total budget, up from 600-billion-dollars in 2007.
The Bush budget includes just 50-billion-dollars for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in 2009 and no money after that year.
Editor:Du Xiaodan
