Defense Deparment drawing on payroll accounts to fund the war
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell says that unless Congress acts to pass the $108 billion FY2008 global war on terror supplemental legislations the Army payroll account will run out and soldiers could go without pay. (0:20)
May 6, 2008
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