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I seem to recall an order that would ‘backpay’ certain categories to Jan. 2004. Any word on this or is it just my imagination?
Comment by Jody Belanger — August 15, 2009 @ 6:29 pm
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Line In the Sand
February 2nd, 2009
Today President Obama has provided direction to the Pentagon to cap the 2010 budget request for defense at $527 billion. It is an increase over last years number and is based on the Bush administrations input for 2010 back in February 2009.
Now it is time to start apportioning out priorities within the budget and stay in the President’s direction. Once this process is completed the President will submit his defense budget for 2010. Then congress gets their hands on it and injects massive doses of politics.
The Obama administration has given the Pentagon a $527 billion limit, excluding war costs, for its fiscal 2010 defense budget, an official with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget said Monday.
If enacted, that would be an 8 percent increase from the $487.7 billion allocated for fiscal 2009, and it would match what the Bush administration estimated last year for the Pentagon in fiscal 2010. But it sets up a potential conflict between the new administration and the Defense Department’s entrenched bureaucracy, which has remained largely intact through the presidential transition. (read the rest)
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