Read more carefully, that's the total of all improperly accounted for transactions, not lost money.
While it's still a complete shit show. There's a huge, almost click bate difference.
While it's still a complete shit show. There's a huge, almost click bate difference.
The report says not that they're "spending" $21T, but that they made a cumulative amount of errors and corrections in their vouchers equalling $21T and have really poor audit controls.
While bad audit controls is a legitimate and serious problem, it very much is not the same as what people normally think of as "Spending".