The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget

Second, the Pentagon cannot keep track of the dollars it already has, leading to massive waste, fraud and abuse in the sprawling military-industrial complex.

The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget | Bernie Sanders | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/the-pentagon-doesnt-need-886bn-i-oppose-this-bloated-defense-budget)

Then Sanders and the Dems voted down a bill for an auditor of Ukraine war spending.


Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also joined the Democrats in rejecting the new oversight office.

Senate democrats oppose oversight office of US aid for Ukraine (nypost.com) (https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/senate-dems-oppose-oversight-office-of-us-aid-for-ukraine/)

Rand Paul is another hypocrite .

I would agree with Sanders that defense spending is a bloated mess and needs to be reined in. But in their rejection of oversight, they have turned aside the very kind of thing that can do the reining in.