Pentagon's plans for inflated OCO request spark conflict on Capitol Hill

摘要

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK) said this week he would back the Pentagon if it submitted a budget requesting a massively inflated warfighting account intended to skirt statutory spending caps, but his Democratic counterpart Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) opposes the move on the grounds that it is a "dramatic retreat... from common sense and good government." Inside Defense first broke news last week of the Pentagon's plans to submit an Overseas Contingency Operations request for fiscal year 2020 that could be as much as $ 174 billion -- more than $ 100 billion more than it sought for FY-19.