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Gates warns of funding shortages over stalled Iraq bill
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 09 - 05 - 2007


US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said
Wednesday that the deadlock between the White House and Congress over
a spending bill for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan has forced
the US Army to slash costs in order to continue funding the war
effort, according to dpa.
The Army has scaled back funds for supplies, contracts, hiring
personnel and other programmes in order to shift the money to combat
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gates said.
"The disruption to the (Defence Department) and programmes here at
home, in order to fully sustain the troops abroad, and particularly
in Iraq and Afghanistan, has a growing impact here at home," Gates
said in testimony before a Senate budget committee.
The Democratic-controlled Congress and President George W Bush
have been in a stalemate since Bush on May 1 vetoed a 124-billion-
dollar spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan because the Democrats
including pullout dates in the measure.
Bush has refused to endorse any deadlines for withdrawing US
troops from Iraq. Negotiations between the White House and top
Democratic lawmakers have so far failed to produce a breakthrough.
Gates said 1.6 billion dollars has already been transferred from
the Navy and Air Force to the Army, and the Pentagon was seeking
congressional approval to shift more funds.
Gates said it was possible to sustain the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan by transferring money until July, but that would cause
severe problems in the Pentagon.
"We could probably fund the war into July, but I would tell you,
the impact On the Department of Defense in terms of disruption and
cancelled contracts and programmes would be huge if we had to do
that," he said.


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