WASHINGTON – Senate lawmakers revealed that the Pentagon is spending almost $1 billion dollar on an internal audit in the hope of saving an additional $46 billion in unnecessary spending over the next five years. A whopping 12,000 auditors have been deployed by the Pentagon for the sole purpose of identifying places in the U.S. military that could cut spending without hurting its warfighting capabilities.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis had promised the Senate during his confirmation hearing in January 2017 that there would be an extensive audit of the Department of Defense. That audit is happening right now, according to Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“This is the first time we have done an audit of this scale at the…
