Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) ripped the Department of Defense’s finances for failing its fifth consecutive audit and inability to account for 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets.

“The most ravenous Leviathan of our government that devours the people’s wealth is the Department of Defense,” Higgins said in an impassioned speech during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on the DOD’s failed audit, financial management practices.

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    1 year ago

    Especially considering it’s been a DoD problem for many, many years now. The audits they talk about in the article date back to as far as 2017… this isn’t a new issue.

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      Sheesh, one of the conspiracies about 9/11 was that the location of the pentagon hit was where they had just failed an audit. It’s a gigantic pit we’ve been ‘losing’ money in for decades, if not a full century.