How Good Is the Pentagon at Keeping Track of All of Its Money?

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Last year, Congress authorized $858 billion for the Department of Defense. Counting defense spending outside of the Pentagon, like nuclear spending at the Department of Energy, the budget is really closer to a trillion and a half dollars. And apparently that doesn't even include the billions and billions and billions of Ukraine aid.

Congress wants more oversight of how the billions in US aid to Ukraine are being used. But our own military can’t even seem to pass an audit.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Haleema Shah, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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