Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen is calling for the elimination of emergency supplemental spending used to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is instead pushing for the inclusion of war funding in the annual defense budget. In the DefenseNews.com article, “Mullen Wants Supplemental Spending Rolled Into Annual Baseline Budgets,” he argues that supplemental appropriations “have taken on, in many ways, a life of their own.” Often times these supplemental bills have provided more than just emergency funds for war fighting, and his solution …
