In January of 2015, the Pentagon completed and promptly buried an internal report identifying $125 billion in wasteful spending that would accrue over the next five years.
President Obama began his Wednesday speech announcing his intention to abandon all efforts at withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan by touting a list of successes.
On paper, the plan sounded reasonable enough.
Each year the Government Accountability Office (GAO) releases its “Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Other Financial Benefits” report, which is a really long name for a list of ways the federal government could stop squandering our money.
