House Appropriators Give SecDef Blank Check For $28.6B
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on July 07, 2017 at 3:14 PM
President Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis
WASHINGTON: In a sign of how strange the budget process has become, the House Appropriations Committee has approved a defense spending bill that basically gives Secretary Jim Mattis a $28.6 billion blank check. Scattered across seven different accounts in the base and Overseas Contingency Operations budgets, it’s called the National Defense Restoration Fund, and it makes up 4.3 percent of the bill’s $658.1 billion Pentagon budget.
http://breakingdefense.com/2017/07/house-appropriators-give-secdef-blank-check-for-28-6b/
