Pentagon: Will normalize war funding procedures, ending supplemental 'emergency' requests

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will abandon the practice of financing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through emergency spending requests that have relatively little supporting detail, Pentagon officials said Thursday.

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the House Budget Committee that President Bush's upcoming budget request for 2008 would be accompanied by an estimate for that year's war costs. England said Bush's $100 billion-plus emergency war request for the 2007 budget year, to be sent the same day, would be the last multibillion-dollar request, also known as a supplemental.

"In '08, there's not a plan to have a supplemental," England said.

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