chris van hollen, congressman from maryland, rick mulvaney are two that have banded together many types repeatedly to do this. there was an amendment, it was a total account of $5 billion, they took $3.5 billion out congress agreed to it. that's exactly what's going to happen this time. $39 billion in extra oco money is an allowable amount. it's the ceiling. that's not what's going to get appropriated for defense. and there will be fair and legitimate arguments to take a lot of that money away. congress itself said no to f-22s in the emergency spending bill several years ago. the pentagon is going -- the leadership in the services is going to want to put a lot of hardware and equipment and modernization programs into the oco and that's not going to be a voting majority, supportable proposition by most members of congress. and so first problem is what's going to happen on the floor? the pentagon's going to lose a lot of this money. once it starts losing a lot of money it thinks it might be able to get it's going to take us back to the last four years of all of this wild swing in defense

chris van hollen, congressman from maryland, rick mulvaney, are two that have banded together many types repeatedly to do this. there was an amendment it was a total account of $5 billion, they took $3.5 billion out, congress agreed to it. that's exactly what's going to happen this time. $39 billion in extra oco money is an allowable amount. it's the ceiling. that's not what's going to get appropriated for defense. and there will be fair and legitimate arguments to take a lot of that money away. congress itself said no to f-22s in the emergency spending bill several years ago. the pentagon is going -- the leadership in the services is going to want to put a lot of hardware and equipment and modernization programs into the oco and that's not going to be a voting majority, supportable proposition by most members of congress. and so first problem is what's going to happen on the floor? the pentagon's going to lose a lot of this money. once it starts losing a lot of money it thinks it might be able to get it's going to take us back to the last four years of all of this wield swing in defense