The White House, following a major foreign policy address at the U.S. Military Academy by President Obama, released a statement outlining the administration's plan to fund a new $5 billion counterterrorism partnership program using wartime supplemental funds. "The administration is currently finalizing the Department of Defense portion of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) request consistent with the President’s decision on troop levels in Afghanistan," according to the May 28 statement . "This includes funding for the...
