House Adopts Emergency Supplemental Measure
by Adam Hughes*, 5/6/2005
Yesterday the House adopted the conference report on the 2005 emergency supplemental (H.R. 1268) to fund war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Next week the Senate will most likely approve the bill as well and it will go to the President for his signature. In clearing the measure, the House narrowly rejected a Democratic effort to add another $284 million in border security funding through a motion to recommit the measure back to conference.
The $82 billion measure appropriates $75.9 billion towards war spending, bringing the total level of war spending since the spring of 2003 to $228.4 billion. See the National Priorities Project for a great breakdown of the cost of the war by state
