{"id":8048,"date":"2009-05-04T17:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T22:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2009-05-04T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T22:22:39","slug":"jeff-leys-president-obamas-war-budget-analyzing-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8048","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Leys: President Obama&#8217;s War Budget: Analyzing the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/vcnv.org\/speaker-bio\/jeff-leys\">Jeff Leys<\/a>, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, 4 May 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vcnv.org\/files\/WAR_BUDGET_ANALYSIS_2009_PUBLISH.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Obama\u2019s 2009 supplemental spending request to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is currently before Congress. The House Appropriations Committee will \u201cmark up\u201d (finalize its version) of a war funding bill at a committee hearing on May 7th. The full House will likely vote on the bill the following week. The objective is to have the bill finalized and to Obama for signature by Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama is seeking an additional $75.8 billion in war funds for this fiscal year. It is possible that Congress will add to this amount before final passage. If Congress enacts Obama\u2019s request, total war spending will come to $144.6 billion for Fiscal Year 2009 (which ends on September 30, with Fiscal Year 2010 beginning on October 1). This compares to the $186 billion war spending in 2008. Obama\u2019s proposed war budget for 2010 is $130 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vcnv.org\/president-obamas-war-budget-analyzing-the-numbers\">Read More<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeff Leys, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, 4 May 2009 Download PDF President Obama\u2019s 2009 supplemental spending request to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is currently before Congress. The House Appropriations Committee will \u201cmark up\u201d (finalize its version) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8048\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-25O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}