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A bipartisan bill introduced in the House last Thursday would penalize the Pentagon for failing to pass its financial audit by cutting the budget for each department agency that didn’t receive a clean opinion. The Audit the Pentagon Act of 2021 is co-sponsored by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Michael Burgess (R-Texas), who said the focus of the bill is to “increase transparency and accountability” into areas of wasteful spending at the department. “In the thirty-one years since Congress passed…
