House Republicans’ Letter to President Bush Pledges to Sustain Presidential Veto on Pork-Laden War Spending Bill

Via email:

Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) released a letter sent today to President Bush by 154 House Republicans pledging to sustain a Presidential veto of the war spending bill over billions in extraneous and unnecessary pork-barrel spending that is unrelated to the mission of our troops in harm’s way. Boehner issued the following statement:

“If Democrats insist on sending the White House a bloated war spending measure loaded with billions in pork, House Republicans will sustain the President’s veto. This letter sends a strong message that Republicans will continue to fight for a clean troop funding bill, without tying funding for our generals and our troops to arbitrary restrictions or pork-barrel projects. American troops deserve a clean bill without extraneous and unnecessary spending and free of strings that undermine their mission.

“Speaker Pelosi pledged to bring-up a clean funding bill for the troops if their ‘pork and retreat’ strategy failed. Together with the President’s veto pledge, this letter should make it clear to Democrats that their strategy has, in fact, failed. The path Democrats have chosen is clearly a dead end – an exercise in partisan futility that puts both American troops and their mission in jeopardy. It’s time to do the right thing. Further delay is, in and of itself, just another ‘slow bleed’ strategy to force an American retreat.”