Bush proposes billions more for Homeland security
Online Exclusive, Feb 6 2004
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President Bush has sent Congress a $2.4 trillion election-year budget featuring big increases for defense and Homeland security. The president declared that his spending blueprint advances his three highest priorities -- winning the war on terror, strengthening Homeland defenses and boosting the economic recovery.
"Our nation remains at war," Bush said in his budget message.
Bush would boost military spending by 7 percent in 2005, but that does not include the money needed to keep troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Homeland security would receive a nearly 10 percent boost, including an 11 percent increase in FBI funding to support increased counterterrorism activities.
The 9.7 percent increase in Homeland security funding would bring the 2005 budget to more than $30 billion -- an increase of more than 2 percent over 2004 levels.
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