Analysis: Biden ends abuse-prone overseas military budgets - Roll Call

Roll Call

Center

High Factuality

Individual: FiscalNote

Analysis: Biden ends abuse-prone overseas military budgets - Roll Call

The Biden administration’s fiscal 2022 defense budget request would eliminate the so-called Overseas Contingency Operations account, a seemingly bottomless box of money that had become emblematic of Washington’s fiscal flimflammery.The president intends to discontinue requests for OCO “as a separate funding category, instead funding direct war costs and enduring operations in the DOD base budget, a significant budgetary reform,” according to a f…