Nearly half of the Pentagon’s fiscal 2017 budget request for wartime operations would reportedly go to “enduring requirements,” according to a report, prompting one expert to say the Defense Department “misled” Congress.

Inside Defense reported on Friday that about $30 billion of the $58.8 billion requested by the president for the fiscal 2017 overseas contingency operations account would go to long-term requirements, not the war-related costs for which the fund was originally established.