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White House Seeks $5 Billion More To Fight ISIL

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, November 10th, 2014

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White House Seeks $5 Billion More To Fight ISIL

The Obama administration on Monday sent Congress a $5.6 billion budget amendment, including $5 billion for the Defense Department, to fund war-related operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The request, which includes $520 million for the State Department and other International Programs, is in addition to the $58.6 billion and $7.3 billion the administration requested in June, respectively, for DoD and the DoS/OIP to fund Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) related to the administration’s battle against…

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