White House threatens veto over policies, not weapons cuts

The White House announced May 16 its opposition to House Democrats' efforts to add $2.4 billion for 10 additional C-17 aircraft to fiscal 2008 defense authorization legislation, as well $1.7 billion for an additional LPD-17 amphibious ship and $456 million for a T-AKE cargo ship. Bush administration...

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