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The Pentagon is the only federal department that has never passed an audit. Now, lawmakers are introducing a bill that would require any component of the Defense Department that fails to pass a clean audit to forfeit 1% of its budget back to the Treasury.

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Oh please, 1% lol 😂

joeleesuh How about we send that 1 percent to pay off student loan debt?

1%? No. That’s a drop in the bucket. Let’s try 80%.

How about some jail time for defrauding the government?

Israeli ambassador today spouting pure victim/propagandist BS on NPR. Tell me, of the 232 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes so far, how many were Hamas?

🇺🇸: Ceasefire? 🇮🇱: No, eff off. *Kills entire families.* 🇺🇸: Okay, here’s $735 million in weapons. 🇮🇱: About time. 🇺🇸: Ceasefire? 🇮🇱: No eff off. *conducts Massacres” 🇺🇸: Okay ☺️ we’ll send you next instalment of $3.8 billion in military funding soon. Have fun!

You don’t “pass” and audit. It’s not a test.

They're missing two zeros.

Should be more than 1%

About time! Totally unacceptable! I've worked for the state government for nearly twenty years and I've had to account everything, keep all invoices, etc. to the penny and my annual budget is only a few thousand dollars! Good grief!

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As if the welfare spending out of HHSGov would pass muster. Give me a break with this liberal bullshit. But, defense supports high technology jobs, so National Communist Radio, therefore stands in opposition.

It should be, for every penny not accounted for, that's a penny lost from the next budget. In addition, the budget cannot be increased until a clean audit is passed.

Let's say 10% until they find the missing trillions.

1% That’s it? It should be at least 10%

Great idea!! Must be held accountable.

Are you kidding, 1%? No wonder our world is fucked you MFs need to end black money. End it now. WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE OUR MONEY IS GOING. BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS, NO ONE KNOWS END BLACK BUDGETS MAKE THEM TELL US WHAT OUR MONEY IS DOING.

That’s because the Pentagon has no oversight. The military can do whatever it wants however it wants whenever he wants with as much as it wants. When I was in the army, they told us repeatedly to waste supplies so that the budget for the following year would be increased.

Not much of a consequence. 1% that's a no brainer.

Should be 5%

Accountability … what a brilliant idea. 🤦‍♂️

Should be a higher %, there's a lot of waste there.

1% of the public budget or 1% of the shadow budget?

They don’t care about the money. Get rid of the lousy leadership.

They’ll cut 1% for failing the audit and then add 5% to their budget the next time they vote on the budget.

All government agencies and any place that receives any type of federal or state funding should have to do this.

20% might do better at lighting a fire under some asses. Just sayin’.

Too many Treadstones?

Only 1%?

I’m still waiting on Trumps audit to finish lol😂🤣😂☠️

The bare minimum of oversight

Slashing DOD funding by 50% would give us over $400 billion for re-investing in America

Unacceptable... Meanwhile the Department of Defense's budget authority is approximately $721.5 billion

i like it; let's see if it's effective; if not, maybe a higher percentage is in order

Convert it to the department of competitiveness.

Make it a higher percentage.

They’d rather forfeit the 1%

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