The biggest thieves of all time are from the American government. The amount of wealth stolen from We the People should have many hung or imprisoned for life but collectively America yawns and just doesn’t care. That money could have been put to great use but this government has essentially become loathsome, corrupt and useless. Our taxes and the Treasury has made many filthy rich and it’s disgusting to think where it all went. Any decent accountant could find out but government and the a-hole politicians love their power and money. We founded a nation fighting nasty King George and now we have thousands of them within government.
Keep in mind that Democrats, certainly under Clintoon, would give political appointees full DoD pensions after the first year of government work, sometimes fully vested on day 1. This happened no matter what branch of government they were joined to.
Does the DoD waste lots of money? Gobs of it. But the so called “authorized” spending for non-Defense items is enormous.
No different than LBJ putting the school lunch and other Section 8 programs under the Dept of Agriculture. Complete misdirection, mostly fraud.