Mar
30
[From CNN.com]
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new analysis of funding for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan concludes the Army could continue to wage war through July without additional funding from Congress.
The analysis may bolster Democrats in their increasingly contentious veto showdown with President Bush.
In a report prepared for the Senate Budget Committee, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said the Pentagon has flexibility to transfer money from elsewhere for “urgent requirements” and could finance the war with current appropriations “through most of July 2007.”
President Bush and Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have said the Pentagon needs Congress to approve additional war funding by April 15, or military operations will begin to be affected.
The House and Senate have passed supplementary appropriations bills for war operations, but the bills contain language setting out deadlines for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
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