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fromThe Cipher Brief
1 day ago

Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon's Expanding Budget

Mandatory reconciliation funding bypasses annual appropriations oversight, so high-priority defense programs should receive full scrutiny and sustained attention through appropriations.
fromTruthout
4 months ago

Pentagon Fails 8th Audit in a Row as Congress Grants It $1 Trillion Budget

The Department of Defense identified issues with tracking funds for programs like its F-35 fighter jet program, the Pentagon's most expensive project with a cost of over $2 trillion over the past few decades. The authors of the department's annual financial report, released Friday, identified 26 material weaknesses within the department's internal controls - referring to severe issues among the agency's accounting that could lead to major misstatements in financial reports.
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