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White House Renews Veto Threat Against Troop Funding Bill
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House again says President Bush will veto rival House and Senate Iraq funding bills, even after Democrats made spending concessions designed to win the president's signature.
White House budget office director Jim Nussle said Thursday that a plan by House Democratic leaders to send Bush a bill without domestic appropriations that would bust his $108 billion request still wouldn't satisfy the president.
Nussle says Democrats' plan to add legislation extending unemployment benefits and boosting veterans education benefits under the GI Bill would not win Bush's signature. Trying to jam the politically popular veterans and unemployment benefit programs past the president is a cynical exercise, and Bush has made it clear he'll veto it, Nussle said.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Pentagon Not Warm to Idea of Myanmar Aid Drop
