Members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees can’t decide if the defense budget should be above or below sequestration caps. So both the House and Senate’s plans keep DoD’s budget within the caps set by the 2011 Budget Control Act and increase funds for overseas contingency operations. Tom Collina is director of policy for the Ploughshares Fund and former research director of the non-partisan Arms Control Association. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said the OCO budget plans are just a political compromise and don’t address the real issues confronting defense spending reform.

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