Why Trump Wants to Audit the Pentagon

[rangerrebew]

Why Trump Wants to Audit the Pentagon

Fred Lucas

Ahead of President Donald Trump’s surprise Twitter announcement Wednesday, a Family Research Council study calculated that military supported gender-transition surgeries, hormone therapies and the lack of deployment time would cost taxpayers $3.7 billion over ten years.

It’s a figure some Republicans used on the House floor when seeking to block the military from funding for such treatments with amendments to Defense Department appropriations bills. Essentially, for some lawmakers, the issue is more about fiscal prudence than physical change, especially at a time when the military is having problems paying for weapons and body armor for soldiers.

Source URL (retrieved on August 2, 2017): http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-trump-wants-audit-the-pentagon-21745

[EC]

If he does this - and the President has every right to order, not request, an audit of the DoD - I'll shut up bitching about him for a month.

It's past time for an accounting. The brass piss away money on useless toys like it's water.

[Bigun]

If he does this - and the President has every right to order, not request, an audit of the DoD - I'll shut up bitching about him for a month.

It's past time for an accounting. The brass piss away money on useless toys like it's water.

  My brother!   

[Free Vulcan]

If he does this - and the President has every right to order, not request, an audit of the DoD - I'll shut up bitching about him for a month.

It's past time for an accounting. The brass piss away money on useless toys like it's water.

Helped a guy with his campaign a few years back that retired as a Major and worked in the Pentagon. He said mostly what the brass did was find some way to create a new department to justify a staff and expand it as big as possible. He said there were whole departments that did nothing but shuffle paper back and forth with other similar departments.

[EC]

I've always considered commands granted to Peters to justify their time in grade while waiting for the next promotion to be in the class of useless (and expensive) toys. 

[Bigun]

Helped a guy with his campaign a few years back that retired as a Major and worked in the Pentagon. He said mostly what the brass did was find some way to create a new department to justify a staff and expand it as big as possible. He said there were whole departments that did nothing but shuffle paper back and forth with other similar departments.

And such is the routine with every government organization I have ever encountered!  The size of your paycheck is largely determined by the size of the fiefdom you have managed to build for yourself!