Where would a government department get this much actual money? Do they just have unlimited debit accounts? At some point someone in the treasury has to transfer the money and notice it’s above the budget right?
The article talks about unauthorized spending not that they had extra money or did over budget spending. So a lot of it could depend on how one defines unauthorized spending.
Skidmore got involved last spring when he heard Catherine Austin Fitts, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, refer to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015. Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress.
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