laid out this past weekend. he s telling his own bureaucracy, you cannot expect more money from congress. at a time of high deficits, he says congress will start clenching its fist when it comes to military spending. robert gates says he ll look across the military spending all around the world. he says his initial target is to find $10 billion to $15 billion on spending on commands the military no longer needs, weapons systems, bureaucracy, redundancy, pork, he said he must find it to support the war fighters in iraq and afghanistan. i think everything is on the table, frankly. i m willing to look at everything that there is. that s the only way we can do it. in the past, particularly after 9/11, with the supplementals, the department never had a great deal of discipline in fiscal matters but discipline really went out the woind with the supplementals. so i think that there s been a lot of growth in this bureaucracy over the last ten years that makes for what i
$33 billion supplementals is not expected to be a deal breaker, shep. shepard: the rest of this thing focuses on afghanistan. how are lawmakers indicating they are thinking of spending the money there? well, 19 billion to essentially fund the surge of 30,000 troops into afghanistan. 3.3 billion for armor, body armor and also armored vehicles to protect the troops, keep them in the fight. $2 billion to fuel up those vehicles. $2.6 billion to train up afghan forces who have a reputation for being good warriors but lack coordination, sophistication and training. and then $1.3 billion for military intelligence. shep. shepard: mike emanuel live at the pentagon. mike, thanks. ever wonder what it s costing you? i mean your portion of the cost of this particular set of wars? we have a place for you to go. our tax calculator on our web site. head over to foxnews.com and click the it s all your money
so it s a tradeoff of whether or not we say where are we giving the benefits? we should say we re broke, medicare s broke, we re struggling to. let s not add new benefits anywhere and make sure the benefits we have today get applied more equitablely. that s a legitimate point but 80% of seniors are helping to pay in extra premiums for 20% who are in this medicare advantage. and it s not means tested so it s not as if people on medicare advantage are somehow the poor people who can t afford supplementals. i want to point this out, $180 billion is going to insurance companies, it s not going to seniors. it s going to insurance companies, including big insurance company profits. without any appreciable improvement in benefits. that s not a good way for us to
to prevent fraud. announce an effort on that this week, i think. and you ve heard pam bondi announce she is conducting active gouging and anti-fraud practices when state and local laws are at play. both is the answer. neither official, the attorney general of the united states or the attorneys general of the states will tolerate gouging. something people ought to think twice about. sir? a possibility of a third and fourth supplemental for disaster relief. can you tell us how much money the administration once including those supplementals and put language cap insurance in that ledge xwlags. first point. no. we pursued this to make sure we have responsible estimates as opposed to wild guesses now. going for the money we need and transition into recovery analyze damage figure how much money we need and go up for another responsible request. got it wrong, go for another if necessary. not necessarily wrong, but
so i ll let you do what to prevent fraud. you heart pat bondi when there are state and local laws at play. neither officials and the attorney general of the united states or the attorneys general of the states will tolerate gouging. that s something that people ought to think twice about. sir? is it a possibility of a third and fourth supplemental for disaster relief? can you tell me how much monoet administration is addressing with the supplementals and will you put the legislation, as well? on the first point, no. we re trying to make sure we have responsiblest the mas and now we re going for the amount of money we need to get through the response operation phase. as we transition into the recovery we ll fig you out how much money we might need and go for the responsible request. it s not necessarily wrong, but