Obama Asks for More Money

President Obama plans on asking Congress for an additional $83 billion to fund the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He believes it will be enough to fund the war through the rest of 2009 and he would like for the additional funding to be given by the end of September.

The total cost of the war is steadily approaching $1 trillion dollars, with the majority of the cost going to the fight in Iraq. Obama does plan on backing off in Iraq and shifting focus on Afghanistan. He will start pulling troops out of Iraq in the next few months and sending them over to Afghanistan.

$75 million will go to military troops and reinforcements while the rest will be spent on government agencies and rebuilding Iraq.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/09/obama.war.funding/index.html

Steve Lyons

Journalism 311 student