Dyslexicredaer0 said
The last time they found out the government couldn't account for $2.4 trillion dollars 9/11 happened right afterwords and we were plunged into a war that cost about $2.4 trillion.
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in 2019 it was $35 trillion
The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that’s larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Department’s continuing difficulty in balancing its books.
The latest estimate is up from $30.7 trillion in 2018 and $29 trillion in 2017, the first year adjustments were tracked in a concerted way, according to Pentagon figures and a lawmaker who has pursued the accounting morass
The Defense Department acknowledged that it failed its first audit in 2018 and then again last year, when it reviewed $2.7 trillion in a*sets and $2.6 trillion in liabilities
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While auditors found no evidence of fraud in the review of finances that Congress required, they flagged a laundry list of problems, including accounting adjustments