The sun came up this morning. While yesterday, the President submitted a budget that emphasizes defense spending and the war on terror and at the same time trims domestic spending:
Bush gives a generous 6.9 percent budget increase to the Pentagon - which would receive a record $439 billion before accounting for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and wants Congress to pass a $3 billion or 14 percent increase in foreign aid.
His proposal projects $70 billion in new funds to execute the war in Iraq through the end of September, which will come in a detailed request later this month and bring total war funding for 2006 to $120 billion. Another $50 billion is allocated for next year.
"My administration has focused the nation's resources on our highest priority _ protecting our citizens and our homeland," Bush said in his budget message.
The White House also said that it will request another $18 billion or so in hurricane relief in the next few days.
At the same time, Bush proposes to kill or dramatically slash 141 programs for savings of almost $15 billion.
And people will be upset. Meanwhile, it's in keeping with all the priorities he set on 9/12/01. What a surprise...
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