; Whereas the Overseas Contingency Operations account functions as a make-war-easy budget gimmick, and has grown significantly to fund wars and military actions overseas, which Congress has yet to authorize; Whereas the continual use of Overseas Contingency Operations funds, especially for the cost of enduring requirements rather than unexpected emergencies is the opposite of a contingency account and has resulted in less oversight, less transparency, and higher levels of waste; Whereas $1,800,000,000,000 in appropriations has gone into the Overseas Contingency Operations account since 2001; Whereas the Department of Defense transferred $6,100,000,000 in previously appropriated fiscal year 2019 department funds to build an unnecessary and immoral wall at the southern border and is planning to transfer an additional $7,200,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 appropriated funds for the wall; Whereas spending on sustaining and modernizing the excessively large United States nuclear arsenal is projected by the Congressional Budget Office at nearly $500,000,000,000 between fiscal years 2019 and 2028; Whereas world military spending totaled more than $1,600,000,000,000 in 2015, with the United States accounting for 37 percent of the total; Whereas the United States spends more on defense spending than the next seven countries in the world, including China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan, combined; Whereas the United States could save an estimated $350,000,000,000 per year by cutting defense spending on our endless wars and by cutting unnecessary and wasteful defense spending and would still be spending more on the military than China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea combined