"Then how should the remaining two hundred billion rubles be allocated? Does Chairman Mikhail have any good suggestions?"
Kuderin tentatively asked.
The expenditure budget for the year 2004 was originally set at two and a half trillion, but now Wang Ye suggested raising it to an even three trillion.
That amounts to an extra five hundred billion rubles.
Moreover, Wang Ye also provided a suggestion: allocate three hundred billion—half to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and half to the Safety Bureau, reasoning that the security situation is severe.
Kuderin could not object to this point; he was well aware that the additional five hundred billion rubles would definitely not be easy to claim, probably having been discussed already between Chairman Mikhail and some departments, intending to increase their budgets.
