{"id":15191,"date":"2015-05-12T18:48:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2015\/05\/12\/thornberry-downplays-white-house-veto-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:26:47","slug":"thornberry-downplays-white-house-veto-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/05\/12\/thornberry-downplays-white-house-veto-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornberry Downplays White House Veto Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry on Tuesday downplayed a White House veto threat of defense legislation that proposes to increase military spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House has said President Barack Obama would veto any legislation passed by the GOP-controlled Congress that ups military spending but leaves in place domestic spending caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He&#8217;s threatened to veto our bill pretty much every year at some stage in the process,&#8221; Thornberry, R-Texas, told reporters Tuesday. &#8220;What we authorized and what he requested are exactly the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thornberry was referring to <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">President Barack <\/span>Obama&#8217;s overseas contingency operations (OCO) fund, which was inflated by GOP leaders from $50.9 billion to $89 billion to appease defense hawks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My focus is on matching the lowest ragged edge&#8221; of what Pentagon officials say is needed to defend the country,&#8221; he added, &#8220;and we&#8217;ve done that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, no member has filed an amendment that could be considered on the floor this week as part of the House&#8217;s work on Thornberry&#8217;s panel&#8217;s 2016 national defense authorization act (NDAA) that would shrink the war fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that doesn&#8217;t mean one won&#8217;t emerge before the legislation is called up, perhaps as soon as Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sure there are a variety of people on all sides that will be looking to make some political hay out of a bill that is of this nature,&#8221; Thornberry said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to let the House work its will this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thornberry acknowledged some other members worry the inflated war fund essentially will be &#8220;a big pot of money that [DoD officials] can just do with what they want.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The answer is, &#8216;No&#8217;,&#8221; the HASC chairman said. &#8220;Because we authorized program-by-program in the OCO, including the part the president requested as OCO and then the OCO to meet base requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;None of that is a big pot of money, all of it is authorized program-by-program \u2014 just like we do the base budget,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Adding the nearly $40 billion to the war fund is even opposed by senior Pentagon officials, but Thornberry described it as the lone way lawmakers could <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">find to <\/span>get the military more money because of spending caps in place since 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even if both the 2016 NDAA and defense appropriations bill include an $89 billion war fund, there&#8217;s no guarantee Obama will sign them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Office of Management and Budget Chief Shaun Donovan, during a recent television interview, implied that Obama will veto bills with more money for defense programs but not domestic programs<span class=\"rte rte-comment\"> when annual spending bills begin hitting his desk in a few months<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The president has been very clear. 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