Both Republican and Democratic governors are worried that the President’s surge of troops in Iraq will add pressure to National Guard units already “stretched to their limits,” reports Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the Los Angeles Times. The Administration’s planned surge of ground forces in Iraq was to be the subject of discussion at the White House Monday by governors in town for a National Governors Association meeting.
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…