Bilancio Usa: Bush, bozza all'osso
Rice: 40 mln dollari ai palestinesi
Aiuti per migliorare le condizioni di vita nei territori (ANSA) - RAMALLAH, 7 FEB - Il segretario di stato Usa Rice ha annunciato lo stanziamento di 40 milioni di dollari di aiuti all'Amministrazione palestinese. Dovranno servire a migliorare le condizioni di vita della popolazione dei territori. In particolare, 8,9 milioni dovrebbero andare a lavori di interesse generale, a programmi per i giovani e per l'occupazione, 7,3 a programmi di formazione, 7,9 allo sviluppo del settore privato, 3 alla salute e 13,9 ai sistemi di distribuzione dell'acqua.
Bilancio Usa: Bush, bozza all'osso
Previsto un deficit di 390 miliardi di dollari (ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 7 FEB - La bozza di bilancio 2005-'06 trasmessa oggi al Congresso dalla Casa Bianca e' 'ridotta all'osso'. Lo ha detto George W. Bush. 'La bozza riduce ed elimina i doppioni' e taglia 150 programmi di spesa, ha sottolineato il presidente Usa, e indica le priorita' dell'amministrazione: 'vincere la guerra al terrorismo, migliorare la sicurezza interna, incoraggiare la crescita dell'economia'. Previste spese per 2.568 miliardi di dollari ed entrate per 2.178 mld, con un deficit di 390 mld.
Bush Seeks Boost in U.S. Military SpendingMon Feb 7, 2005 10:26 AM ET By Charles Aldinger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday called for a 5 percent boost in U.S. defense spending to $419.3 billion next year, making the Pentagon one of the budget's few winners though facing a slowdown in growth after post-Sept. 11, 2001, surges.
The request to speed modernization of the Cold War military, sent to the U.S. Congress in a $2.5 trillion fiscal 2006 federal budget, would boost Pentagon spending by 4.8 percent and is sure to create heated debate among lawmakers.
The Pentagon budget also does not include funding for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those tens of billions of dollars would come later from separate "supplemental" requests to lawmakers.
"We've got a healthy increase (request) for the year," a senior defense official said. "Since 2001, we're up 41 percent in the defense budget."
But the request for the slightly more than $18 billion in new Pentagon spending is smaller than the 7 percent boost Bush asked for in fiscal 2005.
More than half of the proposed increase would be swallowed by basic spending on "operations and maintenance" to keep warplanes, ships and other equipment in the world's premier military ready for combat. That "O&M" figure would rise by $10.8 billion to $147.8 billion in 2006.
The cost of military personnel would also rise $4.9 billion to $108.9 billion, most of that for a 3.1 percent pay raise for the troops.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other administration officials say the fight against terrorism sparked by the 2001 attacks on the United States requires heavy spending to create a high-tech force that is more mobile than America's ponderous Cold War-era military.
The six-year U.S. defense plan beginning next year also includes anticipated increases to $443.1 billion in fiscal 2007, $462.4 billion in 2008, $482 billion in 2009, $492.1 billion in 2010 and $502.3 billion in 2011.
The military budget for the year beginning next Oct. 1 calls for higher spending for expansion of elite Special Operations forces to fight the U.S. war on terrorism and an additional $2.1 billion for chemical and biological defense.
But the quest to modernize America's Army is also forcing the Pentagon to cut spending on U.S. missile defense from a current $9.1 billion to $7.8 billion next year and slash Navy warship building over the short term while the service develops new high-tech surface stealth vessels.
The current U.S. defense budget of $400.1 billion also does not cover the high cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That cost is being met this year by $105 billion in supplemental spending requests from the White House and is expected to be followed by similar requests next year.
While spending on the Army would decrease slightly to $100 billion next year, Pentagon officials said that would be made up by funds from the supplemental requests for Iraq and Afghanistan because of unusual Army wartime costs attached to those operations.
But the officials denied the Pentagon was hiding regular military spending costs in the budget supplemental for Iraq even though some of those funds would go to realign new Army brigades in post-Cold War "transformation."
Despite the overall increase in defense spending requested for next year, the department has actually reduced previously budgeted arms purchases by $6 billion in fiscal 2006 and nearly $30 billion through 2011.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7557568
Aiuti per migliorare le condizioni di vita nei territori (ANSA) - RAMALLAH, 7 FEB - Il segretario di stato Usa Rice ha annunciato lo stanziamento di 40 milioni di dollari di aiuti all'Amministrazione palestinese. Dovranno servire a migliorare le condizioni di vita della popolazione dei territori. In particolare, 8,9 milioni dovrebbero andare a lavori di interesse generale, a programmi per i giovani e per l'occupazione, 7,3 a programmi di formazione, 7,9 allo sviluppo del settore privato, 3 alla salute e 13,9 ai sistemi di distribuzione dell'acqua.
Bilancio Usa: Bush, bozza all'osso
Previsto un deficit di 390 miliardi di dollari (ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 7 FEB - La bozza di bilancio 2005-'06 trasmessa oggi al Congresso dalla Casa Bianca e' 'ridotta all'osso'. Lo ha detto George W. Bush. 'La bozza riduce ed elimina i doppioni' e taglia 150 programmi di spesa, ha sottolineato il presidente Usa, e indica le priorita' dell'amministrazione: 'vincere la guerra al terrorismo, migliorare la sicurezza interna, incoraggiare la crescita dell'economia'. Previste spese per 2.568 miliardi di dollari ed entrate per 2.178 mld, con un deficit di 390 mld.
Bush Seeks Boost in U.S. Military SpendingMon Feb 7, 2005 10:26 AM ET By Charles Aldinger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday called for a 5 percent boost in U.S. defense spending to $419.3 billion next year, making the Pentagon one of the budget's few winners though facing a slowdown in growth after post-Sept. 11, 2001, surges.
The request to speed modernization of the Cold War military, sent to the U.S. Congress in a $2.5 trillion fiscal 2006 federal budget, would boost Pentagon spending by 4.8 percent and is sure to create heated debate among lawmakers.
The Pentagon budget also does not include funding for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those tens of billions of dollars would come later from separate "supplemental" requests to lawmakers.
"We've got a healthy increase (request) for the year," a senior defense official said. "Since 2001, we're up 41 percent in the defense budget."
But the request for the slightly more than $18 billion in new Pentagon spending is smaller than the 7 percent boost Bush asked for in fiscal 2005.
More than half of the proposed increase would be swallowed by basic spending on "operations and maintenance" to keep warplanes, ships and other equipment in the world's premier military ready for combat. That "O&M" figure would rise by $10.8 billion to $147.8 billion in 2006.
The cost of military personnel would also rise $4.9 billion to $108.9 billion, most of that for a 3.1 percent pay raise for the troops.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other administration officials say the fight against terrorism sparked by the 2001 attacks on the United States requires heavy spending to create a high-tech force that is more mobile than America's ponderous Cold War-era military.
The six-year U.S. defense plan beginning next year also includes anticipated increases to $443.1 billion in fiscal 2007, $462.4 billion in 2008, $482 billion in 2009, $492.1 billion in 2010 and $502.3 billion in 2011.
The military budget for the year beginning next Oct. 1 calls for higher spending for expansion of elite Special Operations forces to fight the U.S. war on terrorism and an additional $2.1 billion for chemical and biological defense.
But the quest to modernize America's Army is also forcing the Pentagon to cut spending on U.S. missile defense from a current $9.1 billion to $7.8 billion next year and slash Navy warship building over the short term while the service develops new high-tech surface stealth vessels.
The current U.S. defense budget of $400.1 billion also does not cover the high cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That cost is being met this year by $105 billion in supplemental spending requests from the White House and is expected to be followed by similar requests next year.
While spending on the Army would decrease slightly to $100 billion next year, Pentagon officials said that would be made up by funds from the supplemental requests for Iraq and Afghanistan because of unusual Army wartime costs attached to those operations.
But the officials denied the Pentagon was hiding regular military spending costs in the budget supplemental for Iraq even though some of those funds would go to realign new Army brigades in post-Cold War "transformation."
Despite the overall increase in defense spending requested for next year, the department has actually reduced previously budgeted arms purchases by $6 billion in fiscal 2006 and nearly $30 billion through 2011.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7557568
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