{"id":59659,"date":"2019-03-27T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/03\/27\/bloated-war-fund-will-sink-trumps-budget-dems-say\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:23:28","slug":"bloated-war-fund-will-sink-trumps-budget-dems-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/03\/27\/bloated-war-fund-will-sink-trumps-budget-dems-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloated war fund will sink Trump\u2019s budget, Dems say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Key House Democrats are slamming the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/03\/11\/heres-trump-fy20-budget-its-about-to-get-shredded\/\" target=_blank>plan<\/a> to offset defense spending limits by inflating a war fund, as well as the president\u2019s plan to divert military funding to build a wall on the southern U.S. border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administration\u2019s decision to propose a $164 billion war budget with $98 billion in base-budget needs for 2020 is a \u201cpatently dishonest budget maneuver\u201d to avoid statutory budget caps, House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the president is seeking a $750 billion national defense budget for fiscal 2020, beyond the $716 billion Congress enacted for FY19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a House Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday, Yarmuth told David Norquist, who is the Pentagon\u2019s comptroller and acting deputy defense secretary, that the Trump administration plans could yield yet another partisan stalemate and government shutdown. Norquist\u2019s appearance was the Defense Department\u2019s first before the panel in five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe all agree we need a military that is second to none, but securing our nation requires a comprehensive strategy, which includes nondefense activities,\u201d Yarmuth said. \u201cWe must begin by raising budget caps as soon as possible. Instead the president ignores this need and uses a dishonest OCO [overseas contingency operations] gimmick to increase defense spending by cutting nondefense investments critical to our national and economic security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/03\/01\/trumps-border-wall-to-cast-long-shadow-over-fy20-defense-budgetand-thats-not-all\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1053880062.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Border wall casts long shadow over FY20 defense budget \u2014 and that\u2019s not all<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Even before it arrives, the defense budget proposal is already taking flak from lawmakers over the bookkeeping gimmickry that\u2019s likely to accompany it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To avoid negotiating a bipartisan budget deal while adding funds for President Donald Trump\u2019s long-promised border wall, the administration is using the war fund to skirt budget caps \u2014 while also cutting the nondefense side of the budget. To get additional border wall funding denied by Congress, Trump declared a national emergency on the southern border to claim broader authorities to shift dollars in the Pentagon\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These unprecedented budget maneuvers have upset members on the left and right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is bipartisan opposition to [the president\u2019s budget], and I can assure you the Democratic-controlled House is not going to pass a budget that creates $174 billion [overseas contingency operations funding] and guts every other aspect of funding,\u201d House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., told Pentagon leaders at a hearing Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president\u2019s proposed budget \u201cdramatically undercuts\u201d Congress\u2019 ability to find a two-year budget deal and is \u201cbreathtakingly irresponsible,\u201d Smith said, adding that the Pentagon budget\u2019s inclusion of border wall funding undercuts arguments for an increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo look at the Pentagon as sort of a piggy bank slush fund \u2014 where you can simply go and grab money for something when you need it \u2014 really undermines the credibility of the entire DoD budget,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIf you\u2019ve got $5 billion to $10 billion to $20 billion just lying around the Pentagon for any particular purpose, what does that say about whether or not you really need the money you are telling us that you need?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith, on Tuesday, attempted to block the Pentagon\u2019s move to reprogram $1 billion in Army funding to support the border wall. The situation foreshadows a fight over which branch of government has final authority on how that money can be spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Department of Defense officials have told lawmakers that decisions to pursue unorthodox budgeting maneuvers were made elsewhere in the administration. At Wednesday\u2019s budget hearing, Norquist skipped an opportunity to defend the approach, saying: \u201cWhat we did is we built up the requirement and presented it in the way we were asked to present it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/03\/08\/house-democrats-demand-shanahan-explain-border-wall-funding-scheme\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_9120.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">House Democrats demand Shanahan explain border wall funding scheme<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">How will the Pentagon pay for the border wall? Lawmakers worry Congress is being sidelined.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The focus on the president\u2019s budget belies disunity among House Democrats about the ultimate size of their counter-proposal, as Yarmuth has yet to announce whether his panel will attempt to draft a budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While steep cuts seem to be on the agenda of members like Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who confronted Norquist on Wednesday over comparatively smaller defense budgets of America\u2019s global competitors, other Democrats questioned Norquist in a way that was protective of defense spending in their respective districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late in the hearing, Rep. 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