Pentagon Fails 7th Straight Audit, Cannot Account for $824 Billion Budget

Each and every year, the Pentagon eats up the biggest amount of money in the budget.

And each and every year, at least as of late, the Pentagon fails to pass an audit to account for where all the money was spent.

This year was no different, as the Pentagon was not able to accurately account for the $824 billion in taxpayer dollars that it was handed.

Where Is the Money

The Department of Defense has a total of 28 different entities that report during an audit.

Of those 28 departments, one received a qualified opinion, while 15 received disclaimers, nine received an unmodified audit opinion, and three are still pending.

The Pentagon has now set a goal of passing an audit by 2028, not exactly encouraging for those of us sick of seeing our tax dollars wasted by people who cannot balance a checkbook.

Michael McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer, however, claims that the DOD "has turned a corner in its understanding of the depth and breadth of its challenges."

He continued, "Momentum is on our side, and throughout the Department there is strong commitment—and belief in our ability—to achieve an unmodified audit opinion.”

Part of the problem is that McCord is still not taking accountability, blaming the system that he is part of rather than the agency itself.

To that point, he stated that “about half” of the reporting departments had “clean opinions,” adding, "So if someone had a report card that is half good and half not good, I don’t know that you call the student or the report card a failure.”

If this was a school and you had children failing in the teacher’s class in mass numbers, you would look at that teacher to decide if the teacher was teaching properly or not.

So, then look at the people in charge of these departments and if they are not doing their jobs, fire them, and replace them with someone who can.

We need only look at the aid sent to Ukraine for the key issue… they never require accountability.

Government waste in the military has been a problem for decades. Heck, I can remember as a kid reading stories about hammers costing the Pentagon thousands of dollars, and that was probably 40 or 50 years ago.

This is where the corruption lies, and the responsibility starts at the top with the Secretary of Defense, so I would implore Donald Trump that whether his Secretary of Defense is Hegseth or someone else, someone needs to be brought on board with the sole purpose of figuring out how every single dollar sent to the Pentagon can be accounted for properly so that all reporting entities have an unmodified audit opinion.

This is not brain surgery… you have the money, you document where the money is spent, then you record where those supplies were sent or used. If you are unable to do that, it means that corruption is present, so fix the issue, fire whoever has to be fired, and bring the right people aboard to fix the problems.