The Obama administration is asking Congress for $11.6 billion in supplemental Overseas Contingency Operations funding for fiscal year 2017, with $5.8 billion for the Pentagon and $5.8 billion for the State Department. The supplemental funding would bring the entire FY-17 OCO request to $85.3 billion. The OCO account is not subject to the spending caps mandated by the 2011 Budget Control Act. "While these amendments focus on funding our overseas national security efforts, our efforts here at home are equally...
