Flip-floppin' Boehner was FOR the $7.4 billion in new emergency spending before he was AGAINST it

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Boehner OKs billions in emergency spending
House Minority leader says 'It all passes the straight-face test'



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22202309/

WASHINGTON - In a break with President Bush, the top Republican in the House endorsed $7.4 billion in new emergency spending, even as he vowed to stick with White House's demands to hew to the president's budget limits for domestic programs. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, endorsed adding funding above Bush's budget for border security, foreign aid and State Department operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other purposes.

"It all passes the straight-face test," Boehner said. Later, a Boehner spokesman said the top House Republican doesn't necessarily support the entire bundle of emergency spending.

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The emergency funding drew a protest from White House Budget director Jim Nussle on Saturday as he issued a veto threat on a $522 billion catchall spending bill.

That measure, under negotiation for weeks, would have cut in half, to $11 billion, the spending increases sought by Democrats above President Bush's request for the agency budgets passed each year by Congress. The $7.4 billion in emergency money - most of which has its strongest support from Republicans - would have brought the total above Bush-'s budget to $18 billion.