As the House of Representatives prepared to pass its fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill, the White House urged lawmakers to reconsider a host of costly personnel initiatives added by the armed services committee.

Initiatives opposed by the White House included:

Bigger Pay Raises - The House was set to vote for a 3.5 percent basic pay increase for January 2008. That’s .5 percent higher than proposed by the Bush administration. The bill also would continue a string of annual raises set .5 percent higher than private sector wage growth through at least 2012.  

A 3 percent raise next January would be enough to keep military pay competitive, said the White House’s Office of Management and Budget in a "Statement of Administration Policy" on the bill, HR 1585, released May 16.

The "unnecessary" half-percentage point bump would cost taxpayers $265 million in 2008 and $7.3 billion over six years, budget officials complained.

I Hope people can see that Bush and all his disgusting minion followers are lying sacks of shit when they say they support the troops, from this latest White House Behavior it seems all the Bush Whate House wants from its military is slave labor!

Bush is lower than scum to block this pay raise for the military!