The Hill -- The Pentagon is the single largest government bureaucracy and has been cited multiple times -- even in the absence of an official audit -- for grossly irresponsible expenditures. Spending money inefficiently on weapons systems and programs that aren’t needed or that don’t work only makes us less safe, by diverting taxpayer dollars that could otherwise be spent on useful programs. As it stands, right now the Pentagon might be buying power drills to mix cake batter and we wouldn’t know it.
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