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HAC-D Members Blast Major FY ’20 OCO Request as Budget Gimmick

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

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HAC-D Members Blast Major FY ’20 OCO Request as Budget Gimmick

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

Members of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee (HAC-D) took the opportunity May 1 to make sure senior Pentagon officials knew exactly how they felt about the inclusion of $164 billion worth of overseas contingency operations (OCO) funding in the fiscal year 2020 presidential budget request. HAC-D Chairman Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) got straight to the point in his opening remarks Wednesday in a hearing to discuss the Defense Department’s FY ’20 budget request with leaders including Acting Defense Secretary Patrick…

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