"The administration has fallen down on the job in budgeting for these wars, and its budget projections simply are not to be trusted," said Senator Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat.
Administration officials say they expect to have enough money through September by moving money among accounts.
The war funds include money for body armor, reinforced Humvee vehicles and US$500 million to train the new armies of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dropped was House-passed language requiring the Pentagon to reveal the private security contractors it hires for work in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba -- an outgrowth of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.
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