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Obama Requests Nearly $60 Billion to Continue Endless War
Fund request also marks escalation in aid to “vetted” Syrian opposition forces
by Andrea Germanos
An anti-war protest in 2010. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/cc/flickr)
President Obama on Thursday announcedhe would ask Congress for $58.6 billion in war funding for the 2015 fiscal year.
A White House statement outlining the request for what is formally called the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) notes that it is $20.9 billion less than what had been figured in an earlier budget.
The OCO—re-branded from the Global War on Terror—fund is in addition to the nearly $500 billion base FY2015 budget for the Defense Department.
The OCO fund request amount on its own represents 1.55 percent of the the total budget, but is part of the overall military spending that accounts for over 16 percent of the budget.
The OCO budget “isn’t subject to caps or cuts or any restrictions at all,” as Mattea Kramer of the National Priorities Projected has noted, and, as Defense News reported earlier this month, “The administration has never announced a final year for OCO funding.”
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/06/obama-requests-nearly-60-billion-to-continue-endless-war/
