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Issues here is that about -- in the defense budget, $750 billion, $165 billion of that is called the overseas contingency budget, which is off the books. there are a lot of critics that say the president may be putting a lot of money into the oco budget as its called to back fill money that he's taking from other areas of the military to build the wall. so i put that question up. listen here. >> there's concerns by some budget watch dogs that money in the overseas contingency operation will build a wall on the southern border can you allay the concerns that the money will not be used to be bui...

Billion. the fact that $165 billion of that will be in the overseas contingency operations fund, which is an off-the-books thing that is not subject to spending caps. a lot of people are worried the white house may use some of that money in the oco budget to back fill money that is being used from the military budget to build a border barrier. i asked the omb director about that today. here's what he said. >> we do not request any oco money for the purchasing of -- the completion of the wall. we do have emergency spending that we devote to it. we continue to -- continue the military rebuild by...