Bush to seek $70 bn in partial 2009 war funding

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Bush to seek $70 bn in partial 2009 war funding
Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:49am EST

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Bush administration will next week ask the U.S. Congress for $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other related operations for part of the 2009 fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday.

"We'll send up the fiscal year '09 budget (next Monday)," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. "It will have a request for an emergency allowance to support activities related to the global war on terror into 2009... in the amount of 70 billion." (Reporting by Andrew Gray, Editing by Frances Kerry)


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