Senator Webb Response to President Bush's FY09 Budget Proposal

February 4, 2008 -- Washington, D.C. – Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) today issued the following response to President Bush’s proposed FY 2009 budget:

“The President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2009 flat-lines domestic programs at a time when we most need significant investment in our nation’s economy. Not since the nexus of World War II and the Great Depression has the country been faced with such serious hurdles from both an economic and foreign policy perspective.

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“What I find most disturbing about the President’s proposal is that it fails to fund our seriously decaying infrastructure programs at the same time that it hides the true cost of the war from the American people. Without full transparency after more than six years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is impossible for the American people to make a full accounting of our financial commitment there. Further, the costs of war have brought us to a period of deficit spending without addressing the challenges here at home.”

Source: Senator Jim Webb