The Audit the Pentagon bill introduced last week by Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., described in last Thursday’s Examiner editorial, is rightly aimed at reforming Pentagon budget processes so that the Defense Department can be held to the standards of fiscal accountability that are required of all other executive branch agencies.
The editorial quoted Manchin as saying, “We need to make sure that we’re using our limited resources in the best way possible to support the men and women in uniform.” The bill should be passed, but even if it is it will fix only half of the problem with Pentagon budgeting.
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