Defense Secretary Ash Carter opposes the House Armed Services Committee's budget proposal to shift $18 billion in overseas contingent operations money to the Pentagon base budget, calling it "another road to nowhere." "I have serious concerns with a proposal from one of the defense committees to underfund DOD's overseas warfighting accounts by $18 billion, and spend that money on programmatic items we didn't request," he told the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee Wednesday. "While I don't expect this committee to consider...
