President Obama Vetoes $612 Billion Defense Bill

IBTimes: Military Budget 2016: President Obama Vetoes National Defense Authorization Act

U.S. President Barack Obama vetoed Thursday the 2016 defense budget, a $612 billion bill proposed by Congress that the president said undermines strict spending caps imposed on other government departments. The budget would rely on a largely unregulated fund to pay for defense items. After both the House and Senate passed their versions of the National Defense Authorization Act earlier this year using the $38 billion Overseas Contingency Operations Fund to compensate for spending caps, Obama vowed he would unequivocally veto the bill.

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