US Considers Using Some War Funds to Help Iraq

• The White House continues to milk its failure to submit a proper Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) FY15 budget for all it’s worth. Two weeks after saying it intended to spend some OCO money to reassure Eastern Europeans, funds previously meant for Afghanistan may now be assigned to Iraq. The Administration has quite a lot of leeway given it has an OCO placeholder bigger than anyone else’s entire defense budget save for China and Russia.