Negotiators for the House and Senate have agreed to back down on including extra funding within the supplemental spending bill, and are doing so to avoid a veto fight with the White House. The emergency spending bill, which is set to fund war efforts (which after this long should not be funded through the emergency procedure) and hurricane disaster relief, will most likely cost no more than $94.5 billion. This amount is significantly closer to Bush's initial $92.2 billion limit, but far less than the $109 billion supplemental bill passed by the Senate May 4. That bill garnered intense criticism from Republicans, including Majority Leader Frist (R-TN), for including excessive spending on non-emergency earmarks, and circumventing the standard budget process to do so.