Democratic Congress member Alan Grayson of Florida, meanwhile, has introduced a bill that would end funding of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq outside of the regular Pentagon budget. Grayson unveiled the “War is Making You Poor Act” on the House floor last week.

Rep. Alan Grayson: “It requires the administration to carry out the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only — that’s 'only' — the $549 billion set forth in the President’s budget for defense spending, without the additional $159 billion the President has asked for, for the sake of the so-called emergency war, which now stretches on to nine years in one case and seven years in the other.”

The measure calls for directing the savings from ending so-called “emergency” war spending toward a tax cut.