The gap between lawmakers’ calls to blindly increase spending at DoD versus those of internal auditors to curtail its waste isn’t a new problem.’ President Trump’s budget proposals focusing on the Department of Defense.
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On Thursday, Donald Trump released a preliminary budget proposal that calls for a $52bn increase in military spending. But just last December, a Washington Post investigation found that the Pentagon had buried a report that outlines $125bn in waste at the Department of Defense. That gap between lawmakers’ calls to blindly increase spending at DoD versus those of internal auditors to curtail its waste isn’t a new problem, and it’s one that, without pressure, won’t be resolved any time soon.
That’s because although it’s required to by law, the DoD has never had an audit, something every American person, every company and every other government agency is subject to. The result is an astounding $10tn in taxpayer money that has gone unaccounted for since 1996.
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Eisenhower saw this coming as we all know. This article is another reminder that the MIC must be dealt with before the wheels fall off completely. The United States government & the black project military intelligence corporate structure are completely unaccountable to the people. Ignoring the problem will have catastrophic consequence.
It is untrue that the military takes 57% of the budget. The true amount is 16%. It is also untrue to say that the military budget is un-audited. It is only true to say that it has not been audited by _external_ agencies. The military itself has an internal auditing system. I have been assigned to commands when they have been audited, and they take those audits seriously because commanders can suffer serious consequences if problems show up that they should have properly managed