As RedState reported on November 12, President-elect Donald Trump announced that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy will lead his newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Trump said at the time:
These two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies – Essential to the ‘Save America’ movement.
If there’s a better example of the urgent need for the Department of Government Efficiency — headed by Musk and Ramaswamy, no less — than the one that follows the below link, I’m unaware of what it is.
It was reported on Friday that the Pentagon, the nation’s largest government agency, failed its seventh audit in a row, still unable to fully account for its more than $824 billion budget. Worry not, suggested Pentagon officials, who stressed that they’re making “good progress” toward a clean audit in 2028.
Two thousand twenty-eight? Something tells me that in the minds of Elon and Vivek, more than four years isn’t good enough.
According to reports, the Department of Defense — led by often-under-fire Secretary Lloyd Austin –technically earned a disclaimer of opinion, meaning it failed to provide sufficient information to auditors to form an accurate opinion.
First question: Why? I’ll venture a guess that the answer is because sufficient information was nowhere to be found, which raises the second question: Why not?
Incidentally, the Pentagon has never passed an audit since the agency became legally obligated to conduct them in 2018.
What is the ramifications when the Pentagon doesn’t pass the audit ?
Is it ” business as usual ” ?
” Pentagon officials, who stressed that they’re making “good progress” toward a clean audit in 2028. ”
Who are these ” officials ” ? Who is the Chief Financial Officer of the DOD?
The Honorable Mike McCord was sworn in as the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer on June 1, 2021. Is Mr. McCord the one ultimately responsible for the budget ?
$824 billion budget. How much of this money goes toward the ” black / top secret ” programs that we will never know about ? ( that they hide under false / fictitious names ) ?
You have to many departments in the Pentagon writing checks from the same check book or multiple check books without anybody their balancing the check book.
This might be a long breakdown of the departments that are responsible for the Pentagons budget.
Michael John McCord is an American government official and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/CFO is the principal staff office for the Defense Department on all budgetary and fiscal matters, including the development and execution of the Defense Department’s annual budget of more than $850 billion. As chief financial officer, the Under Secretary’s Office also oversees the Department’s financial policy, financial management systems, and business modernization efforts.[
Officials reporting to the USD(C) include:
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
Director, Defense Contract Audit Agency
Director, Defense Finance and Accounting Service
Deputy Comptroller (Program/Budget)
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
Deputy Comptroller (Enterprise Financial Transformation)
Deputy Comptroller (Budget and Appropriation Affairs)
Director, Human Capital and Resource Management
Budget features
Comptroller Initiatives – Support for producing and providing senior Department leadership with authoritative, accurate, and timely financial statements and support Department-wide business transformation efforts by improving financial management processes, systems, and financial reporting. This funding appears to support the programs of the Defense Contract Audit Agency and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) Improvement – Maintain the FYDP information system used to collect, transform, disseminate, build reports, and provide analytical displays for planning, programming, budgeting, and execution activities
Administrative Support – Funds services including general office support, data administration, records management, workflow and correspondence tracking, and other administrative tasks
Capabilities Portfolio Management (CPM) – Funds OSD and Joint programs used to advise senior Department leadership and support strategic decision making to optimize investments and minimize risks in providing capabilities to the Warfighter. CPM includes programs such as Command & Control, Joint Logistics, Net Centric Operations, Corporate Management Support, and Battlespace Awareness
Next Generation Resource Management System (NGRMS) – Maintain IT system used to formulate, justify, present, and defend the DoD budget, including equipment maintenance support, software upgrades, and software licenses
Enterprise Funds Distribution System Support (EFDSS) – Maintain IT system used for controlling and distributing funds, including equipment maintenance support, software upgrades, and software licenses
Travel – Funds employee travel in support of the OUSD(C) mission
No surprise there. Demon crats are in charge – since they are criminals this is what we expect of them. Pray for Trump to have real allies this time and for him to affect the change that will save our country.
If you only knew.