1. The Week on the Hill, January 24-27.
- Author
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Smallen, Jill and Mitchell, Charlie
- Subjects
UNITED States politics & government ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,FUNDRAISING ,BUDGET deficits ,PUBLIC administration - Abstract
The article presents news related to the U.S. politics. The officials of the U.S. administration under President George W. Bush, announced on January 25, 2005 that the president will ask the Congress for approximately $ 80 billion in additional funds to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The supplemental funding request will be submitted to Congress shortly after President Bush presents his fiscal 2006 budget proposal on February 7, 2005. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the federal government will run a $368 billion budget deficit in fiscal year 2005, an improvement over fiscal 2004, when the deficit was $412 billion.
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- 2005