President Obama Will Veto Defense Policy Bill

http://breakingdefense.com/2015/09/president-obama-will-veto-defense-policy-bill/

President Obama Will Veto Defense Policy Bill
By Colin Clark on September 30, 2015 at 5:21 PM

WASHINGTON: One day after House and Senate conferees finally came to agreement on the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, President Obama appeared ready to make good on half a decade of threats to veto the annual defense policy bill. Hours after that bad news hit, Congress cleared a Continuing Resolution this evening, allowing everyone to breath for a few months.

“That’s an irresponsible way to fund our national defense priorities,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing, referring to the GOP decision to bypass Budget Control Act caps by moving money into the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund. “If the president got this bill, he’d veto it.”

Republicans bypassed the BCA spending caps (the so-called sequester) by shoving nearly $90 billion into the OCO account, designating routine spending as an emergency war expenses exempted from the caps.

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The White House appears ready to veto the bill over something virtually no American knows about or would probably care about. But the Democrats seem committed to take this fight on. Only one Democrat signed the conference report for the NDAA, signaling the clear split between the two parties over a bill that has traditionally been the one bipartisan thing America could actually rely on Congress to do every year.