(2/9/05) Bush budget cut 9,790 border patrol positions

[underpants]

DU'er reprehensor had a thread on this a few days ago-6th listing on google.

I read this in an op/ed somewhere yesterday so I googled it (2005 bush border patrol budget)

Can you say WHOOPS! ?

Bush budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents
President uses law's escape clause to drop funding for new homeland security force

Wednesday, February 9, 2005
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/09/MNGOKB837T1.DTL

Washington -- The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of Bush's austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday.


Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California, along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year.

But Bush's proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents.

The shrunken increase reflects the lack of money for an army of border guards and the capacity to train them, officials said

The law signed by Bush had a caveat that went virtually unreported at the time. A summary, published by the Senate Government Affairs Committee, required the government to increase the number of border patrol agents by at least 2,000 per year, "subject to available appropriations."


Archived thread from May 15th
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1195383

[life_long_dem]

1. That's the proper way to frame what happened. Instead of saying

that he added 210 BPA's, say what he DIDN'T do.

Repukes are so transparent. We will take the Senate or the House in November, I am convinced that people are fed up with this BS administration.