(PrimeChronicle.org) – When our team stumbled upon this story, we felt sincere outrage. Our government has yet again earmarked hundreds – thousands – millions of dollars for specific purposes, only to have it completely disappear. Even worse? As you’ll see, the Pentagon has NEVER passed a Congressional audit. The DOD has a $3 TRILLION budget. Where do you think some of that money should go instead? ~The Prime Chronicle Team
The Pentagon has yet again failed to account for massive sums of money. Congress ordered that the Department of Defense (DOD) provide documentation to explain how money earmarked for Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) was spent within the department. The Pentagon spends over one hundred million dollars on DEI programs per year. Congress wants to know how it was spent and if it has a significant impact on hiring and job performance.
Pentagon representatives informed Congress that the report would take considerable time to produce because the DOD does not have the staffing required to complete a financial report. The Pentagon reported that staffing was so low for the DEI office that the DOD lacked the manpower to effectively manage financial records. The Pentagon has nearly 30,000 employees.
The DOD has an annual budget of nearly one trillion dollars. Congress has frozen hiring for the DOD’s DEI office until after the audit is completed.
Republican Indiana Representative Jim Banks expressed his exasperation over the DOD’s inability to render a financial report. Banks suggested that the DOD may be covering up radical leftists within the department.
The Pentagon is no stranger to misplacing billions of taxpayer dollars. The DOD has never passed an audit issued by Congress. In November of 2023, the DOD failed its sixth audit. In response to the failures, a DOD spokesperson stated that the department is “getting better” at financial accounting.
In another statement, the DOD claimed that it could not keep track of funds because the department was growing too fast. There is no evidence of significant growth within the DOD. Roughly 1,500 auditors worked to account for missing funds, but instead, the auditors discovered they could not account for almost half the DODs annual budget.
The Pentagon is over two months late with submitting the financial report to Congress. and has not offered a timeline for when the current audit will be released.
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