Congressional Republicans’ plan to fund the defense budget through the wartime spending account is a “road to nowhere,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned the defense subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 6.The GOP budget resolution, which was passed by the Senate yesterday, would boost Overseas Contingency Operations spending to fully fund priorities laid out in the president’s fiscal year 2016 base budget. However, President Barack Obama will not accept a budget that boosts defense at the expense of…
