DOD will make it easy for lawmakers to shrink massive OCO budget

By Tony Bertuca / March 11, 2019 at 11:45 AM
( Editor's note: This story has been updated to include new information from a senior administration official.) The Pentagon may be submitting a fiscal year 2020 budget requesting $545 billion in base spending and a controversial $164 billion Overseas Contingency Operations account, but government sources said lawmakers will be able to easily move back $98 billion in OCO funds that actually belong in the base budget. The massive uptick in OCO is being done to skirt spending caps set...

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