Pentagon Fails 7th Audit: Taxpayer $Billions Unaccounted, Deputy DefSec to laugh it off Scandal

The dismissiveness of Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks in this clip is simply astounding. Jon Stewart points out the Pentagon keeps failing its audits & she literally tries to laugh it off. This is the entrenched mentality the next SecDef will face.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has failed its seventh consecutive financial audit. Despite commanding an $824 billion 2024 budget — funded entirely by hardworking American taxpayers — the Pentagon remains unable to account for vast sums of money. The Pentagon began its first-ever agency-wide financial audit in 2017. This marked the beginning of a process that had been sought, promised, and delayed for years. Since undertaking this initial audit, the Pentagon has consistently failed to pass its subsequent audits, the first of which failed in 2018​.

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Pentagon Fails 7th Audit: Taxpayer $Billions Unaccounted, Deputy DefSec to laugh it off Latest Scandal

Key Points

The dismissiveness of Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks in this clip is simply astounding

• Jon Stewart points out the Pentagon keeps failing its audits & she literally tries to laugh it off
• This is the entrenched mentality the next SecDef will face
• Department of Defense (DoD) has failed its seventh consecutive financial audit

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• to be doing like there is a lot of waste fraud and abuse within a system
• Audits and waste fraud and abuse are not the same thing so let’s decompose these things
• Then please educate me on what’s going on
• Sure so an audit is exactly what you just described which is do I know what was delivered to which place
• The ability to pass an audit or the fact that the DOD has not passed an audit is not suggestive of waste fraud and abuse
• It’s suggestive that we can’t we don’t have an accurate inventory that we can pull up of what we have where
• That is not the same as saying we can’t do that because waste fraud and abuse has occurred
• If I give you a billion dollars and you can’t tell me what happened to it
• But if you can’t tell me where it went then what am I supposed to think and when there has been reporting
• I mean this is not like I’m not I’m not saying this is on you and that you cause this but I think it’s it’s a tough argument

Full transcript: 579 words transcribed via Whisper AI.