Angie Craig: “The President, as the Commander in Chief, has the latitude within the law to spend beyond the limits of the budget when…”

“The President, as the Commander in Chief, has the latitude within the law to spend beyond the limits of the budget when we have troops in foreign lands. The Food and Foraging Act allows for the President to do that. That case has occurred in Bosnia. What the supplemental offers is some reprogramming of dollars within the defense budget to pay for expenditures that have already been let in the area of Defense. So it is not just flood money. It is clearly reprogramming money for the Department of Defense and for our troops stationed in Bosnia.”