1.0Free the Peoplehttps://freethepeople.orgJosh Withrowhttps://freethepeople.org/author/jwithrow/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://freethepeople.org/18-billion-sleight-hand-defense-bill/">The $18 Billion Sleight-of-Hand in the Defense Bill</a></blockquote> <script type='text/javascript'> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,n=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},!c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(t)if(t.secret||t.message||t.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var r,a,i,s=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=0;o<n.length;o++)n[o].style.display="none";for(o=0;o<s.length;o++)if(r=s[o],e.source===r.contentWindow){if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(i=parseInt(t.value,10)))i=1e3;else if(~~i<200)i=200;r.height=i}if("link"===t.message)if(a=d.createElement("a"),i=d.createElement("a"),a.href=r.getAttribute("src"),i.href=t.value,i.host===a.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(!n){n=!0;for(var e,t,r=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),s=0;s<i.length;s++){if(!(e=i[s]).getAttribute("data-secret"))t=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t);if(r||a)(t=e.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),e.parentNode.replaceChild(t,e)}}}}(window,document); //--><!]]> </script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://freethepeople.org/18-billion-sleight-hand-defense-bill/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“The $18 Billion Sleight-of-Hand in the Defense Bill” — Free the People" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>https://freethepeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/mac-thornberry-paul-ryan.jpg1200675House Republicans are literally gambling with money for the troops. By tucking billions of dollars of general defense spending into the emergency war funding (known as Overseas Contingency Operations funding, or OCO), Republican big-spenders have only left enough actual war funding to last through April 2017 instead of September. This is just the latest and most outrageous in a string of tactics that defense hawks – largely Republicans – have used to force Congress to spend beyond its means.