U.S. Secretary Of Defense: Iraq, Syria Conflicts To Require More Money

Iraq, Syria Conflicts to Require More Money, Hagel Says -- Bloomberg

Conducting a sustained campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria will require increasing the Pentagon’s budget, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today.

“We’re going to require additional funding from Congress as we go forward,” Hagel said at a Pentagon press conference.

Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the new commitments for Iraq and Syria have created a budget shortfall in the Defense Department’s $554.2 billion request for fiscal 2015, which includes $58.6 billion for warfighting. The request for the year that begins Oct. 1 is pending before Congress.

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