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The President's War Request: Local Costs UpdatedAs Congress considers additional war funding for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2009, National Priorities Project offers a state-level table and breakdowns of the President's proposed total war spending by congressional district, county and city. Of the President's $83.4 billion supplemental request, NPP analyses show that $77.1 billion is for war and ancillary operations. Of that, we estimate that $52.7 billion is dedicated to the Iraq War for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2009. The estimated remaining $24.4 billion in war-funding is for the expanding war in Afghanistan and related operations1. Notably, we have not included funding for Pakistan (this is a part of the remaining $6.3 billion requested that is not directly related to conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq). As U.S. military intervention spills into Pakistan from Afghanistan, this distinction may be revisited. If NPP had considered operations in Pakistan in the same light as Afghanistan, this would add $1.8 billion to war funding. To date, the cost of war that has been approved by Congress is $830.2 billion with $657.3 billion to Iraq and $172.9 billion to Afghanistan. The $77.1 billion from the supplemental request brings total war spending to $907.3 billion dollars since 2001. According to the Obama administration, this is the last time war spending will be funded through an emergency supplemental request. Beginning with Fiscal Year 2010, war funding will be a part of the regular budget process. While this means that war spending as a part of the normal budget process will be subject to rigors that have been largely absent from emergency supplemental requests, the possibility exists that it may be more difficult to track war-related non-military spending such as economic support or some humanitarian aid. We hope that in the spirit of budgetary transparency advocated by the Obama administration, these aspects of war-related spending will continue to be clear in upcoming budget requests. The table below shows, for each state, how much money has already been allocated to total war spending including Iraq, Afghanistan, and related operations; what the additional amount under consideration will cost; and what the requested funding could buy in local services. For congressional district, county, and city data, click here.
1Previous NPP analyses have attributed 80% unspecified war funding to operations in Iraq and 20% to operations in Afghanistan. In light of the 8.5% troop level reduction announced thus far for Iraq in 2009 and the 55% troop level increase announced thus far for Afghanistan in 2009, we have made new estimates of approximately 70% funding to Iraq and 30% to Afghanistan. 2Total war funding to date includes all approved funds for Afghanistan since FY2001 plus all approved funds for Iraq since FY2003. See CRS Report RL33110, October 2008. 3Of the $83.4 billion requested by the President for FY2009 supplemental spending, NPP analyses show that $77.1billion is for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This includes Department of Defense provisions including Military Personnel, Operations & Maintenance, Procurement, and Military Construction; Department of State provisions including Diplomatic and Consular Programs and Economic Support; and Department of Justice provisions.
Updated: Sat, 04/25/2009 - 17:48
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