President-elect Donald Trump has chosen fiscal hawk Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) to run the White House Office of Management and Budget, raising questions about bullish predictions for defense spending, specifically the Pentagon's $58.8 billion Overseas Contingency Operations account, which Mulvaney has called a "slush fund." As previously reported by Inside Defense , an ongoing Government Accountability Office review, when combined with the Pentagon's internal budget deliberations and Capitol Hill politics, suggests the Defense Department's OCO account may be approaching...
