Pentagon: Budget Cuts for Failed Audits
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While this bill has support from both parties, similar efforts have failed for years due to concerns about how budget cuts might affect national security.
Scores run from -100 (strongly harmful) to +100 (strongly beneficial) for each group, combining impact, certainty, scope, and duration ratings of 1-5. How impact scoring works
If a military branch or DoD element fails to get a clean audit, its funding drops by 2 percent, spread evenly across every program tied to that branch, including training, equipment, and operations accounts. Since no part of DoD has ever earned a clean audit, active duty units could see recurring funding reductions, though the pressure could also push commands to fix accounting problems that currently obscure how money is spent.
“the amount available to such department, agency, or element for the fiscal year in which such determination is made shall be equal to the amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated minus 2.0 percent”
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Sent to a congressional committee for expert review. The committee decides whether this bill moves forward.
Introduced in Senate
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Audit the Pentagon Act
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