In 1990, Congress required every agency to go through an audit process. What happened in the intervening 28 years? You know, we could ask that question about so many things that the Pentagon is congressionally mandated to do and that they simply don't. In this past year, the DOD reported that it could not adequately account for 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets.
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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