Moving on to the 35 billion for borders ... the secure and open sort he promised in El Paso?" What's Ridge's budget up to now? He must be getting a damned god-complex.
Ridge said the administration might do some reorganizing of the federal government that would require new laws."We may make some recommendations about the integration or consolidation of some of these departments that will certainly need congressional approval," Ridge said.
The ex-Marine and former Pennsylvania governor predicted, however, that he would not seek legal authority for his own office because the president's personal support is enough for Ridge to do his job coordinating homeland security operations.
"I've got all the authority I need," Ridge said. "I've gotten $38 billion in (budget) authority in four months," Ridge said, referring to funds in Bush's budget proposal. "That is not so bad."