The situation in Ukraine really highlights all of the longstanding issues that the Pentagon has neglected for years, Pogo says. "I don't see these lawmakers after sound bites also talking about how to prevent corporate price gouging," he adds. Many members of Congress on key national security committees receive campaign funding from defense corporations,. There's evidence to suggest many of them have owned and traded stocks in defense companies.
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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