H.Amdt.1037 to H.R.4909. Rep. Keith Ellison’s (D-MN) amendment would have cut $9,440,300,000 from the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget. The OCO budget is a Pentagon slush fund that allows the Pentagon to surpass budget caps that other government programs are bound to, and allows the Pentagon to be less transparent in how it spends taxpayer money. Failed, 132-289.

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