The Pentagon plans to seek $6 billion in supplemental Overseas Contingency Operations spending some time after the Nov. 8 elections, a request that could complicate the overall fiscal year 2017 budget picture when Congress returns to hammer out a spending compromise. Pentagon Comptroller Michael McCord told Bloomberg News in an interview that half the OCO supplemental would be spent on retaining 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through next year, rather than the 5,500 previously planned. The rest of the...
