The White House is now backpedaling from supporting a plan that would have reduced the amount of pay to the nearly 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The plan to eliminate the $75 a month “imminent danger pay” and $150 “family separation allowance” was first reported by the publication Army Times which editorialized against the cutbacks. After coming under intense criticism by military families and Democratic presidential candidates, Bush reversed his decision.