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Originally Posted by kane
Essentially what he did was go to Congress and ask for more money to fund the wars each time the money he had previously asked for ran out. This money was given as supplemental spending bills so it added to the overall national debt, but it never appeared on Bush's official budget.
It is similar to what might happen in the case of a major natural catastrophe. The president asks for a supplemental spending bill to be passes so we can pay to help the people affected and fixed the damage caused by the disaster. Apparently the president has the ability to choose not to add this money to his current budget or future budgets so while the full national debt increases, it still makes his budget look a lot less off than it really might be.
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Thanks for explaining that. So it isn't the entire war that wasn't "on the books" but the portion that was needed when the original funding ran out. (however much that was)
So the debt still occurred. And WAS counted. It just didn't show up on the Bush budget and made it appear his BUDGET wasn't that big. But his DEBT still was.
So does anybody know when (and why) Obama put that on HIS budget? Which year did he do that/ And how? I thought that there hasn't been even ONE budget passed since Obama has been President?