Officials Announce First DoD-Wide Audit, Call for Budget Certainty

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The CR situation has cost the Navy $4B over the last 6 years.

https://www.fedmanager.com/columns/from-the-hill/2906-navy-c...

That's just the Navy.

Both parties are to blame. So vote out those incumbents!

Congress really needs to reform how many committees are involved in appropriations.

They couldn't do this before deciding that the DoD absolutely needs another $70 billion a year (the budget equivalent to paying for everyone's college) to function? What if the audit finds that $100 billion (before the latest increase) is being wasted and could be saved? Will the DoD budget be cut to $500 billion?

It's a shame it didn't happen sooner but it is better than previous years.

>The Pentagon is no stranger to criticism over serious waste and purposefully sloppy accounting. A DoD Inspector General's report from 2016 - which appears to be unavailable on the DoD website (but fortunately WAS archived)- found that in 2015 alone a staggering $6.5 trillion in funds was unaccounted for out of the Army's budget, with $2.8 trillion in "wrongful adjustments" occurring in just one quarter.

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