[Pentagon update]: We won't give up

You, like other Americans, work hard and pay your taxes. And sometimes, you get audited. And if you don’t pass your audit, bad things can happen. So why isn’t the same thing true for the Pentagon?

The Pentagon has never passed an audit. But it keeps getting rewarded: The most recent budget that the president signed is the largest ever—and we’re already spending more on defense than any other nation in the world.

That’s why POGO is here working every day to hold our government accountable to the taxpayers. And now, while the rest of the country—and the world—is distracted by the 2020 elections, POGO will continue to sound the alarm on this malfunctioning system. Read the brief analysis on our website now.

Daisy, we don’t have to tell you why we should be worried that the most recently approved budget is our largest ever. It’s more money than we’ve ever spent—and far too much of it is lining the pockets of contractors who charge the Pentagon astronomical amounts for products and services that could be provided much cheaper. It’s clearly a system that continues to benefit the contractors who are paid by the Pentagon.

Mandy Smithberger, director of POGO’s Center for Defense Information, even wrote, “both parties of Congress continue to vote in near unanimity for increases in the Pentagon budget, despite 18-plus years of losing wars and the never-ending gross mismanagement of weapons systems.” But we refuse to allow this to continue—we will keep fighting for Congress to confront a system benefitting contractors and abusing tax dollars.

We need you to be part of the informed public who won’t stand for mismanagement and wasteful spending any longer. Read Mandy’s analysis on just how broken this system really is.

Thank you for not allowing waste to go unnoticed,

Keith Rutter
Chief Operations Officer
Project On Government Oversight

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