By Mark Cancian, includes “The president has proposed a $45.8 billion government-wide funding package that would provide DoD with $8.3 billion to help it cope with the disruptions of sickness and quarantine from the COVID-19 virus. … Note to critics of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding. While critics often call OCO a slush fund, it is budgeted and accounted for in the same way as the base budget. The DERF is what a real slush fund looks like.”