Pentagon officials are reportedly struggling to devise a plan to spend the extra $500 billion that Donald Trump wants to give the bloated, fraud-ridden agency in the next fiscal year, vindicating criticism of the funding proposal as immensely wasteful.

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that “White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large.”

The extra $500 billion, endorsed by the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, would push annual US military spending to a staggering $1.5 trillion after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans enacted unprecedented cuts to federal nutrition assistance and Medicaid last summer.

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    7 hours ago

    What an incredibly detailed and accurate way to dismiss the fact that, despite you clearly defining what accounting errors are, the Pentagon still can’t audit itself successfully and therefore shouldn’t be given more money.

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      way to dismiss the fact that

      You…

      You think clarification is dismissal?

      I’m fine answering questions to help people understand this, but you don’t understand any of it and aren’t asking questions…

      You have an opinion on what the conclusion should be, so you want to debate facts to make your conclusion appear to be the only option.

      But all of that would be pointless because you’re choosing to remain willfully ignorant of how accounting ledgers actually work.

      I just don’t have the time for that.

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        7 hours ago

        You think that them failing audits is my opinion? I think you missed the point and wrote an accurate yet completely unnecessary post.

        TLDR: you made a highly accurate “welllll actually” post that did nothing to counter the OPs statement.