House Appropriators Balk At Reprogramming Army Vehicle Funds

By Tony Bertuca / June 17, 2013 at 5:06 PM
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has denied or curtailed a host of Defense Department requests to transfer funding from Army vehicle programs to pay warfighting bills accumulated in Afghanistan, according to congressional documents. The largest reprogramming denial impacts the Army's humvee fleet. The service had sought to transfer $171 million pegged for humvee depot upgrades in fiscal year 2013, putting the work off until a later date. But House appropriators have rejected the Army's entire request, stating in a June...

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