Obama Wants More Money for Afghanistan War. Will Congress Grant It?

Submitted by Anna on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 11:32

Gail Russell Chaddock
June 11, 2010

Take Action: End the Afghanistan war in 10 minutes or less

Published by The Christian Science Monitor

Congress faces a formidable summer agenda on issues ranging from an overhaul of financial regulation to oversight of the Gulf oil spill. But nothing is as wrenching for the Democratic majority as upcoming votes to fund the surge of US forces in Afghanistan.

Most of the more than $1 trillion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan passed the Congress as “emergency” spending–that is, funded off-budget. In the Bush years, these were typically big, bipartisan votes, with Republican votes a given.

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