how Bush will pay for Iraq and Afghanistan operations after this Sept??

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/politics/11MILI.html
The New York Times' Schmitt writes that the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force's top officers are questioning how the Bush Administration will pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan after the financing ends in September

Service Chiefs Challenge White House on the Budget
By ERIC SCHMITT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — In an unusual public display of differences with the White House, the top officers of the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force all raised questions on Tuesday about how the Bush administration plans to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan after the current financing runs out at the end of September.

Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, three of the four chiefs of the armed services expressed concerns about a financing gap, perhaps of four months, for the two missions, whose combined cost is about $5 billion a month.

They were left out of President Bush's budget request for the 2005 fiscal year, with the administration saying it would make a supplementary request for up to $50 billion, probably next January — after the elections this year.

"I am concerned," Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, said in response to a question from Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, "on how we bridge between the end of this fiscal year and whenever we could get a supplemental in the next year."<snip>

[madrchsod]

1. i`m writing my check right now

aren`t you?