War Supplemental News Today

The U.S. military would have to make sacrifices to exercises around the globe if Congress fails to pass an FY24 budget, officials warn.

Congress is about to make a bad decision on Medicaid that willaffect taxpayers and families alike. The Centers for Medicare andMedicaid Services (CMS), which is responsible for administering theMedicaid program, has issued seven rules designed to curb certainMedicaid fraud and abuses. Congress is poised to block these rulesand thus allow abusive, fraudulent, and wasteful activities tocontinue.

President Bush should draw a clear line in the sand and vow to vetoany supplemental bill that would spend more than his requestedtotal.

Talks in london. it was their second meeting. they are talking about next steps, whatever "next steps" may mean. they are now planning to send the former deputy chief of mission from the u.s. embassy in libya stevens to make contact with opposition in libya. >> shepard: according to the most recent reports from our government were broke and this is getting expensive. >> its true. and the pentagon has now put out some official figures. they say that the war so far, the first 11 days has cost $550...

Them former house speaker newt gingrich who says if this campaign extends a career or two years the white house will have to ask for a war supplemental. >> the word was yesterday that they would take it out of the current track. >> the u.s. military has done the eyions share of enforcing the no-fly zone because of the u.s. role which is able to take down the libyan military targets. >> white house spokesman jay carry says hell provide resources. >> its generating a lot of buzz out there. the u.s...

Tomahawks overnight and the cost for the war keeps mounting suggesting the pentagon may need to ask for a war supplemental from congress. the cost to date $240 million for tomahawks missile. $31 million for the f-15 jet that crashed. u.s. officials say gaddafi and his forces are still not in compliance with the u.n. security council resolution and must pull out of three cities including adjabia. >> we told them its a withdrawal. establish water, electricity and gas supplies all areas and allow h...

Unnecessary war, afghanistan was where the taliban was, thats whe the attacks on 9/11 were emanateing emanateing, and thats where we -- emanating from and thats where we needed to be. it was easy to paint a picture that they were for military action when necessary and that should be the focus and now that thats done, now that bush is gone, they dont have the same motivation to keep support for the afghanistan war going. bill: in a bigger sense, though, nancy pelosi did not speak on behalf of it,...

>> reporter: i think thats right, and the question is, in the place where you would have a debate reignited is in congress and robert gibbs was asked about this today and he basically, he brought up the fact that david obie, chairman of the house appropriations committee, long-time democrat, hes actually retiring this year was already saying publicly that he was voting against this war supplemental which is for funding for the war and the new strategy in afghanistan, also for some funding in ira...

Left for this town to do anything. >> hes got a closing window of opportunity. they have their august break. they want to take it. they have to run for re-election. hes going to look at energy and figure out what hes going to do on energy. theres big sticking points about whether you have a carbon tax. i think its something you have to do. >> short term, this white house is going to beat up on the republicans about not extending the unemployment. >> they will eventually get that. the other thing...

What we were told by general mcchrystal and what he said about marjah being a bleeding ulcer, and we had reports that the afghans, what they were supposed to do did not happen. these congressmen passed the war supplemental, so i think there is a gap between what general petraeus is saying and what is happening on the ground. he is going to do a great job in afghanistan for us. >> there is no argument that marjah is better than it was five years ago, given three years ago. marjah is better and it...