House committee ready to kill Pentagon's OCO account, calling it an 'abject failure'

By Tony Bertuca / July 10, 2020 at 12:09 PM
Powerful House appropriators want to eliminate the Pentagon's controversial Overseas Contingency Operations account and return the department to annual supplemental funding requests, potentially sending defense officials scrambling to fill multibillion-dollar budget holes, according to documents obtained by Inside Defense . "The OCO experiment has been an abject failure and has given the department a budgetary relief valve that has allowed it to avoid making difficult decisions," the House Appropriations defense subcommittee says in a report set to accompany its version...

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