It's sort of like budgeting nothing for a war and then throwing in an emergency appropriation later.

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The White House requested the emergency appropriation for defense four months ago.

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The administration still treats a five-year war as an unforeseen contingency to be paid for by an extra, emergency appropriation outside its regular budget request.

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