Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Will Likely Get Budget Increase From Congress Anyway
Auditors now say the military may be able to pass an audit before the end of the next decade, so at least that's something.
Auditors now say the military may be able to pass an audit before the end of the next decade, so at least that's something.
The USPS has lost $78 billion since 2007, but could lose as much as $13 billion this year as the pandemic has crushed mail volume.
"Absent policy changes, the federal government continues to face an unsustainable long-term fiscal path," America's top auditor warns. But is anyone listening?
"Most of the [indicators] of measuring success are now classified, or we don't collect it," the special inspector general for the Afghanistan reconstruction told a Senate committee.
Despite the failure, Pentagon officials are spinning the audit as a step in the right direction.
A new audit reveals how poor oversight and structural problems allowed one Oakland cop to earn $2.5 million in overtime pay in five years.
According to Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan, no one expected it to pass anyway.
Meanwhile, Trump and congressional Republicans want to remove spending caps for the Defense Department.
Environmental Protection Agency
And another $840,000 subsidizing parking spaces, despite federal rules meant to limit commuting by car as a way to protect the environment.
The same board investigated a student for giving free haircuts and a cancer survivor for giving beauty treatments to the terminally ill.
Taxpayers paid for "excessive and inappropriate" lodging and travel costs, including for one employee who managed to travel 381 days of the year.