The President submitted an FY2017 supplemental appropriations request to Congress this week requesting an additional $30B for the Department of Defense (DOD) to “rebuild the U.S. Armed Forces and accelerate the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” and $3B for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for “urgent border protection activities.” Of the $30B requested for DOD, $24.9B is for base budget activities and $5.1B is considered war-related and falls under the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account. The $24.9B request would require Congress to lift the defense spending budget caps for FY17, so the President requested that Congress “enact non-defense discretionary reductions of $18 billion in FY2017” to offset these supplemental funding requests.
The $3B for DHS would fund the planning, design, and construction of a physical wall along the southern border, and make other investments in tactical border infrastructure and technology. It will also fund increased immigration detention capacity, and the hiring of additional immigration law enforcement officers and agents.
More details can be found in the administration’s letter to Congress requesting the additional funds and in the supplemental budget materials from the DOD Comptroller.
OMB Letter to Congress:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/amendment_03_16_18.pdf
Defense Supplemental Funding Request Materials:
http://comptroller.defense.gov/Budget-Materials/