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Message started by Leroy on Dec 6th, 2024 at 6:09pm

Title: Trump and the defense department.
Post by Leroy on Dec 6th, 2024 at 6:09pm
With Trump returning to power with his landslide victory he has the chance to complete his overhaul of the defense department.

This is what he did in his first term, the media did not like to report on positive things.

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Trump made it possible to follow the Pentagon’s money

The Pentagon makes up the largest slice of discretionary spending in the federal budget, so it might surprise you that until Trump, no one had conducted an audit of where America’s defense dollars go, and its financial accounting systems were notoriously messy and complicated.

The move: In 2018, the Trump administration for the first time attempted a Defense Department-wide audit. An army of 1,000 outside accountants and 150 personnel from the Defense Department inspector general’s office fanned out to some 600 locations and collected 40,000 pages of financial documents.

The impact: In the end, as widely expected, the Pentagon failed the audit overall; too much paperwork was missing or incomplete. Officials now predict the Defense Department won’t be able to pass a full audit until 2027 at the earliest. But there are bright spots: for example, the first time around the military pay system, an enormous stream of dollars, came back clean. In follow-up audits conducted in 2019 and 2020, meanwhile, a few more defense agencies and military components were added to the clean column.

The upshot: The overall exercise is seen as a milestone in the odyssey to someday verify where all our defense tax dollars are going. What’s more, the audit effort is helping Pentagon managers make their programs more efficient and minimize waste. Efforts to inject more accountability into Pentagon spending are likely to get even more intense during the Biden administration.

Title: Re: Trump and the defense department.
Post by Brian Ross on Dec 6th, 2024 at 7:19pm

Title: Re: Trump and the defense department.
Post by greggerypeccary on Dec 6th, 2024 at 7:25pm

Leroy wrote on Dec 6th, 2024 at 6:09pm:
Trump made it possible to follow the Pentagon’s money


Lol   ;D

Nothing whatsoever to do with Trump (the rapist).

The U.S. government established requirements for each agency to present financial statements back in the 1990s. But for more than 20 years, the Department of Defense has lagged other agencies that were following modern accounting standards, reporting what they received and spent.

In 2010 (under the Obama administration), Congress included a requirement in the National Defense Authorization Act that gave the military "an extra seven years to clean up the books and get ready," as Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa said last year. That set a new deadline to be ready for an audit by September 2017.

Title: Re: Trump and the defense department.
Post by Panther on Dec 6th, 2024 at 9:18pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 6th, 2024 at 7:25pm:

Leroy wrote on Dec 6th, 2024 at 6:09pm:
Trump made it possible to follow the Pentagon’s money



Nothing whatsoever to do with Trump (the rapist)......






Title: Re: Trump and the defense department.
Post by Brian Ross on Dec 6th, 2024 at 9:29pm

Title: Re: Trump and the defense department.
Post by Frank on Dec 6th, 2024 at 9:50pm

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 6th, 2024 at 9:29pm:



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Title: Re: Trump and the defense department.
Post by Marla on Dec 7th, 2024 at 2:38am

Leroy wrote on Dec 6th, 2024 at 6:09pm:
Trump made it possible to follow the Pentagon’s money


Only he didn't.  ;D ;D

Not even close you terminal retard.

And if you are a kangaroo rooter (which I doubt) I'd be worried for your own continent. Orange F A T T Y is never going to send American troops to kangaroo soil when China implements its invasion plans to take over your extremely lazy country and finally oust your useless government. You have done little to next to absolute nothing to protect yourselves and America under Trump is not going to save you.


Best of luck.  8-)





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