Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
08/02/2007
Pelosi: President Threatens to Veto Funding Priorities for America but Spends $20 Billion Every Two-Months in Iraq
Washington, D.C. - Speaker Pelosi issued the following
statement today in response to remarks this morning by President Bush on
Democratic efforts to restore funding and meet national security and domestic
priorities in the pending appropriations bills:
“President Bush is choosing confrontation and partisanship
that will only delay critical investments for our troops, our children, and our
seniors. Instead of working with
Democrats to reconcile our differences over the nation’s spending bills, the
President threatens to veto major new investments in education, health care,
energy independence, and innovation.
“Democrats understand the need for good stewardship of each
and every taxpayer dollar. We’ve
restored strict rules for fiscal responsibility; pay as you go; and no new
deficit spending while this President spends $20 billion every two-months on a
civil war in
“The Democratic Leadership stands ready to work with the President, as we made clear in our visit yesterday, but progress requires a partner in the White House who is interested in consultation and cooperation. The President’s words and his threats to veto nine of the 12 annual spending bills signal that he prefers partisanship while Democrats are working to move American in a New Direction.”