“President Obama today submitted to the Congress a Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 supplemental appropriations request totaling $83.4 billion to fund ongoing military, diplomatic, and intelligence operations.

• An overwhelming amount of this money — nearly 95 percent — is to move forward with the President’s agenda of ending the war in Iraq responsibly and his new strategy of refocusing the fight against al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• The remaining money funds defense and international efforts that reflect the President’s direction that we use all the elements of our power to confront threats to our security — from securing loose nukes to humanitarian relief for those suffering under repressive regimes.”