U.S (WIN WITHOUT WAR) : Write your Senator to end blank checks to the PENTAGON !

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friend : If a business failed multiple consecutive audits, it'd go under. When a person fails an IRS audit, they face any number of penalties, including jail time. So why does the Pentagon — which receives hundreds of billions of your and my tax dollars every year — get a pass when they fail ?

To date, the Pentagon has failed FIVE audits (the only five it has ever even conducted). Last year, the DoD couldn't account for over half of its assets. That’s well over a TRILLION dollars in weapons, ships, and aircraft for which the paper trail is missing or incomplete. These failures are not just an aberration; they are a chronic ailment.

Why ? Because there is no penalty for failing even to perform OR to pass an annual audit.

Thankfully, a fiercely bipartisan bill led by Sens. Bernie Sanders, Chuck Grassley, and others would put some teeth in the process by ensuring Congress holds the Pentagon to the same level of accountability as the rest of the government. With budget negotiations at a fever pitch, a reform like this can’t happen fast enough.

The Audit the Pentagon Act’s requirements are simple : Any office at the Pentagon that fails to complete a clean audit will return 1 percent of its budget to the Treasury for deficit reduction. With a budget of nearly one trillion dollars — and a track record of failure — that could mean billions of dollars the Pentagon puts back in the bank. So let’s go get our money.

It is time to end excessive waste and spending at the Pentagon. Send a letter to your Senators telling them to pass the Audit the Pentagon Act now.

ACT NOW

As Congress digs into yet another a fight over government spending, 2024’s proposed $886 BILLION Pentagon budget is at a record-breaking high — and STILL more than the COMBINED military budgets of the next nine countries : South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, and China.

Another way to look at it is : Each year, Congress plows more money to the Pentagon than all other governmental agencies put together. Those billions add up to more than half of ALL discretionary spending.

Services that directly benefit people and their families face exhaustive debate and stringent budgetary cuts, but year after year no one can accurately answer the question : Where do the Pentagon’s billions go ?

Now imagine the uproar if any other department, from State to Education, could account for less than half of its assets or allowed contractors to overcharge them by 4,451%.

Without proper oversight, inefficiencies fester and financial mismanagement takes root.

Every year, countless programs that help working-class families go underfunded as Congress tells people there isn't enough money in the budget. Meanwhile, as Congress debates “fiscal responsibility” they’d hand the Pentagon nearly a TRILLION dollars — with little accountability for a track record of graft and greed. The Audit the Pentagon Act can help get our priorities back in order.

If you believe, like we do, that an era of an unaccountable Pentagon is over, it's time to push Congress to stop writing blank checks. It's simple. It's necessary. And it’s long overdue.

Together, we can push Congress to fix this broken status quo.

Thank you for working for peace,

Shayna, Eric, Faith, and the Win Without War team

 

 

 

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