
A plan put forth by the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) to rob the Pentagon’s war funding to patch holes in its fiscal 2017 base budget could have a ripple effect on overseas operations for years, according to the Defense Department’s former chief accountant.A proposal by the House Armed Services Committee would redirect $18 billion from war funding to pay for items not covered in the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal.Robert Hale, former Defense Department Comptroller and current…