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Why Can’t the Pentagon’s Army of Budget Bean Counters Shoot Straight?

o crack down on Pentagon spending, the Defense Department adopted a program in 2015 to track spending on lodging and entertainment. But so few officials used the Visa government travel charge card that nearly 4 million card transactions worth $1.2 billion couldn’t be reviewed in enough detail to check for misuse, abuse, and fraud, the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector […]

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DOGE’s Key Revelation: A Federal Budget Made Into A Maze Impervious To Reform

As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” to help rein in federal spending, people have been encouraged to use the Treasury Department’s usaspending.gov website to identify and track government finance. However, usaspending.gov is wrong in the biggest picture. The total spending across “all agencies,” as recorded at usaspending.gov, appears

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