The base Pentagon budget for 2010 amount to 537 billion dollars.

The base budget of the Ministry of Defense in fiscal year 2010, which will begin on 1 October 2009, will be about 537 billion dollars, reports Reuters referring to a member of the House of Representatives, John Merten (John Murtha ).
Merten, controlling the House of Representatives of defense spending, noted that it is not known whether this amount of funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morelli (Geoff Morrell) Office of Management and Budget the White House, applied for additional funding for the wars in the Middle East in addition to the basic defense budget. The amount of the application Morelli did not specify, however, estimated the representatives of the Pentagon, it will be about 140 billion dollars.
As expected, on Thursday February 26, Barack Obama will officially present the report on the budget for the 2010 fiscal year in the U.S. Congress. After that, according to Morelli, and apply administrative and budgetary management.
As the agency Associated Press sources in the presidential administration, to reform health care Obama intends to allocate the budget of 634 billion within ten years. Nevertheless, according to the experts, in fact, that amount could exceed one trillion dollars - so much will be required to ensure that within ten years to provide health insurance for each citizen of the United States that, remember it was one of the Obama campaign promises. According to the agency, the number of U.S. residents with no health insurance, estimated at 48 million people.
In addition, the agency found that the budget would increase income tax rates for couples whose annual income exceeds 250 thousand dollars. Plans are also in the $ 400 tax cut for employees and workers and for 800 dollars - for families with low or middle income.
Remember, it is expected that the U.S. budget deficit for 2010 fiscal year was a record 1.3 trillion dollars. By 2013, Obama promised to cut the deficit to 533 billion dollars.