Bill Nelson: “By the administration's own figures, they are projecting the budget deficit--that is, the amount of money that we have…”

“By the administration's own figures, they are projecting the budget deficit--that is, the amount of money that we have to go out and borrow to pay our existing debts--in this fiscal year as $455 billion as illustrated by the chart the Senator has just shown. They are projecting next year $475 billion of deficit spending. Yet they will not come forth with a supplemental request when finally the Senator from West Virginia got the Secretary of Defense to admit in the Senate Armed Services Committee that the monthly cost for carrying on the war is $3.9 billion a month, just in Iraq, plus about $750 million a month in the war being prosecuted in Afghanistan.”