It’s that most wonderful time of the year: budget roll-out day. This year’s massive budget is the first in which spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — $100 billion through September; and then $145 billion through 2008 — is embedded into the total defense appropriation, as opposed to masking the price through so-called “supplemental” funding later in the year.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181563