
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense has condemned the Pentagon for its “unacceptable and unsustainable” transparency with Congress over the last several funding cycles, including pushing back on calls for greater budget flexibility amid the department’s reprogramming of funds for border wall construction. Appropriators are also considering eliminating the Pentagon’s Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account as a means of circumventing certain budget caps, according to a copy of the panel’s report on its fiscal year 2021 defending spending bill. “The…