Post-Veto War Supplemental Must Eliminate Pork and Support Troops

Publication Date: May 2007

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Ernest Istook; Nicola Moore; Baker Spring

Research Area: Government; Military and defense

Keywords: Budget; supplemental; war funding

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

President George W. Bush was right to veto the war supplemental funding bill. In his second veto since taking office, the President rejected a bill that contained an unconstitutional usurpation of presidential authority as commander in chief and, by adding billions of dollars in pork and pet programs, made a mockery of the new Congress's pledges to return to fiscal discipline.