Chuck Grassley Sends Warning About Pentagon Spending: ’65% Of Transactions Could Not Be Verified’
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- On Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) spoke on the Senate Floor about Department of Defense spending.
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Can you even imagine being say a senior executive and explaining to the CEO or the board of directors you have no idea where 65% of your budget went?
Palates of cash to Afghanistan and Ukraine and some funneled right back into their pockets
Disney come to mind
Only because they are lying.
As long as they get their cut they don't care.
CEO’s and CFO’s are required to attest to their financial statements each year and our own gov’t can’t even pass an audit
Chuck Grassley is a national treasure.
I agree,he truly is!! I have noticed a lot of people that have come forward with information to him before they trust their own state reps and senators! That tells us a lot about this great, trustworthy man!! Peace and prosperity to you and your family, my friend! Montana Rick.
We all owe Iowa for giving us this man with common sense and morals! Thanks Iowans!
He was ready to take over from Pence on Jan6 after the insurrection to overthrow the election. He is one of the worst traitors to this democracy.
He's a relic
@karmicsmite9920 A relic of a better era.
thank you, Senator Grassley! keep it up! Don't Stop!
Imagine how wealthy each working American would be if the government didn’t steal so much of our money and waste it.
@Dee-743 ABSOLUTELY. Especially in states like Michigan where taxpayers have 5 illegals cities to pay FREE ride for
Here in Maine too!
Waste it? It’s in their bank accounts, search up how much each of those senators and congressman have, not even close to how much they supposed to make a year. They are disgusting, we should all be rich with nice roads and amazing school systems and healthy foods
@ hear Jeffries latest speech ? Sounds a lot like a call for Insurrection 😱
😢
The Pentagon needs to pass an audit or we need to stop funding it.
It goes without saying that when funds are "lost" or "misappropriated" it does not benefit taxpayers, nor does it benefit Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion. What an absolute waste to corruption, grift, and theft.
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Bernies been complaining about this for decades. They're the only agency that has never passed an audit.
@@saveamericanfreedom2400 there’s actually a boycott happening in the 5th
Our government has been completely trash. 90% should be in prison.
It goes without saying that when funds are "lost" or "misappropriated" it does not benefit taxpayers, nor does it benefit Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion. What an absolute waste to corruption, grift, and theft.
Starting with obama fake, fraud then all the people that put him in office 😮
97% are Swamp. It's a Uniparty.
What they learned is that they CAN get away with it.
Agreed, put IRS in trash bin as well‼️
Well.. Cut their budget by 65%. Continue to do so until they pass an audit.
The real bipartisanship effort we need!
They need an honest forensic audit of finances in every department of government. This is ridiculous!
@@theluvleeleroycreates I say EVERY member of Congress and Senate 🇺🇸.
@peaceplease2793 Yup!
Yeah good luck! They have stole trillions! We will never get what we are owed!
Would Elon musk be in control of that ! Seems he already had his fingers in our personal information
Last time this was mentioned we had 9/11
This gent is a wise sharp cookie! WISDOM at its finest!
Thank you for your service senator Grassly
A great voice in the wilderness….i have so much respect for Senator Grassley…
We the people demand our tax money to stop being wasted! This is uncalled for!
It goes without saying that when funds are "lost" or "misappropriated" it does not benefit taxpayers, nor does it benefit Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion. What an absolute waste to corruption, grift, and theft.
I’m so disgusted by our federal govt
...it was also necessary to preserve the imdependence of the state governments, for this would check the concentration of powers in the federal government, as part of the goals of the federal system.
Thank God for Trump
I called my Alderman a civil servant , from then on I was his enemy.
So I guess you would prefer to be governed by corporations and the wealthy than by the people. You asked for fascism and now you got it. Have fun living in your car.
Thank God for Senator Grassley! I had a small business and we are constantly under scrutiny... What about the government!!!!
Time for D.O.G.E. to get involved.
They're watching! Some folks are going to be very unhappy when they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar too.
DOGE already found things like $600 million for sushi in one year and they paid $1280 PER CUP for every paper coffee cup used in the Pentagon offices. Extrapolate that through their whole budget and we've been overpaying the Pentagon by at least 99.99%.
Fake, non existent office
Thank you, Senator !
Mr Grassley Still has it! Smart Man
Grassley is a Good Man.
91 years old sharp as a nail 🦯
It’s simple. If you don’t have receipts, it doesn’t get paid.
@@pavel.pluhar9495 Exactly! Just like when I use to have to turn in my monthly expenses for reimbursement.
Bravo 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
When the Pentagon CAN'T PASS AN AUDIT IN 8 YEARS.....WE HAVE A PROBLEM HOUSTON! 🤬
Ha , I don’t think Houston can solve that pile! Ha😂
They've never passed an audit. Never.
Imagine reporting business expenses to the IRS and missing 65% of the receipts to back up the expenses during an audit. I think the IRS wouldn't mind and they would be cool with it.
I’m sure 10% went to the “Big Guy”
I'm sure Mr Z has a few offshore accounts
Supporting documentation is required for everyone paying their taxes so why isn’t it available for those spending it? No other word for it but Criminal!!
You are completely correct Senator. As a software contractor involved in developing software for an Air Force accounting system in the 1990s I can assure everyone that there was a complete disregard for financial integrity in the whole process. Our government, especially the military, has no respect whatever for the people's money.
Stop income tax. That would bust their bubble.
I voted for grassley in 1974 after he visited where I worked.
Since I always vote for this patriot.
The Nuland, Blinken, Biden crime we've been talking about for 10 years is an issue all of a sudden.
Not a sudden issue; now that someone who cares is in the WH to fix it and call attention to the mismagement America is aware.
Schumer WHAT do you have to say NOW
@@ruthnovena40 SChumer is a Criminal threatening our Supreme Court justice is Against LAW in USA
Cut the pentagon budget in half audit everything what happened the last 15 years people need to go jail
No they need to go back to 2002.
YES!
Thank-you, Senator Grassley! No more secret space program without transparency and NO MORE wars for PROFIT! No more theft and money laundering! We have homeless, mentally ill, seniors, disabled, veterans that need help and ordinary Americans of all ages struggling with housing and basic needs and food. Our infrastructure needs safety updating. There are a million uses for this stolen money.
No kidding, what a surprise?!?!? I'm still waiting for a Fort Knox audit!
They stole our gold in 1933. People are to ignopined to look into it.
Need Checks & Balances 100%!
Amen Senator Grassley.
Perhaps you should just let the taxpayers control their own money?
Senator Grassley is on the Case!!!☝️🎯
@@mikab.4041 AMAZING Advocate for American Citizens 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️
@@peaceplease2793he voted for all of this,
Pete Hegseth will move on this.
You better hope so but it will take 30+ trillion to fix it and that will never happen!
WOW, I Saw about this woman 😢. Tk U Honorable Senator Grassly
Love GRASSLEY 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️. Fantastic American HERO for USA Citizens GOD BLESS you
He's amazing. 91 years old and still sharp as a tack (for real, not in Biden terms). God bless him.
He's a tumble bug on an old northern Iowa dirt road from the 1930's. He feels elated when he finds a road biscuit to provide him something to tumble down the road. Forty years ago it was 600 dollar toilet seats and 300 dollar hammers for him. Best he investigate Elon Musk and those defense contracts. That would really give him something to tumble down the road.
Why pay taxes?
Aoc needs to be investigated, how is she have millions already?
She's bartending on the side.
Big Pharma
Or anyone in congress be millionaires!
She’s a foreign agent.
According to weekend at Bernie Sanders "those are campaign contributions"
Don't give them anymore money until they can manage to pass an audit! Hold them accountable! 🙏🔔🇺🇸
I like the first 5or 6. words of that. The rest is just wishful thinking.
Thank God
Chuck Grassley Honors USA Constitution!
Bring them up on charges. Do more than talk.
BS BS BS BS BS
Cancel anything not verified until an investigation can be made and those involved held responsible.
No budget funding without an audit every year, no exceptions.
There's bound to be some spending that doesn't get properly documented due to accident but if you can't account for $2.26B, your next year's budget should be cut by $2B
Senator Grassley messages to the American people especially me ar e comprehensive. I appreciate his honesty and his commitment to the American people
This is terrible. There should be budgets and reconciliations monthly and variances explained. Absolutely unacceptable.
Janet Yamanaka Mello allegedly used grant money to buy lavish properties and 82 vehicles - including a Maserati, a Mercedes, a 1954 Corvette and a Ferrari Fratelli motorcycle - and in one instance used the funds to purchase $923,000 of jewelry in a single day in 2022, the Associated Press reported
Sorry, who’s Mello?
@@YayasWhimsicalBrush like Obama and Biden admin that Funded Wuhan via grants
"Mello was a financial manager who handled funding for a youth program at the military base and determined whether grant money was available. She created a fraudulent group called Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development... used the fake organization she created to apply for grants through the military program. She filled out more than 40 applications over six years, illegally receiving nearly $109 million... Rather than... going to the care of military children throughout the world, she selfishly stole that money to buy extravagant houses, more than 80 vehicles and over 1,500 pieces of jewelry." - Federal News Network
It's her extravagance that finally brought her down. But what if she was not too extravagant to draw attention of prosecutors?
I'm not familiar with that name.
@YouTalkinToMeBro I edited it to show you her full name, Janet Yamanaka Mello. Sorry
Let's see if they are held responsible...
All managers needs to be investigate and prison if they break the law..😮😮
Zero accountability.
If money can not be accounted for then money should not be released to these departments. When money is not accounted for then it clearly has been Laundered
Nightmare on 1600 Street
Get rid of the pentagon.
Senator Grassley should be looking into who approved the payments and FIRE everyone in the chain, not just McCord.
The Honorable Gentleman from Iowa shines as a prime example of a statesman. Junior and freshmen alike would do well to follow in his exemplary manner.
Amazing man.
Only 65% with no reciepts....😅 sounds low to me.
It goes without saying that when funds are "lost" or "misappropriated" it does not benefit taxpayers, nor does it benefit Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion. What an absolute waste to corruption, grift, and theft.
Fraud
I have always been proud of my Senator, good,decent and intelligent man.
The swamp members starting getting panic. They know there chance of getting away is getting further n further away from them 😂😂. U can run but u can’t hide 😂😘✌️
You're too honest Grassley. But honest when hell breaks loose
In The United States Has There Ever Been Any Organization Of Strictly Federal Legal Terminology Of "Franchise" Not Based Implicitly Upon Counterfeit Paper ?
Last days of Rome.
❤Sen. Chuck Grassley he is awesome.❤
Forbes good reporting, yes Republicans for 10 yrs. Wars more complicated
Remember Rumsfeld on September 10, 2001; The Pentagon has misplaced 3.1 trillion dollars.😮
Sure do!! then they went and crashed two planes into the twin towers to distract and destroy the evidence
Nothing matters to the big spenders. The taxpayer is a bottomless pit of revenue for congress to exploit
Shame shame shame. Prosecute instead of using harsh words.
Thank you for giving your all to get rid of corruption
Halliburton? Wasn’t that Cheney’s company that overcharged and made huge profits off us?
Imagine how nice life could be if we just took a little time to learn how our govt. works. It would be easier to oust the bad guys and maybe even stop them from trying to run for office.
Why is Chuck Grassely so concerned about this now? Yes there is truth to the statement but asks yourselves why? He has always signed on the dotted line for the pentagon spending and never cared UNTIL now that they have not passed an audit. Why know?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It all begins at the top.
Poor America..!
For so long we've spent so much for so little! Those who did the spending without detailed, legit receipts should be charged with theft, and imprisoned!
Mismanagement? Need to arrest people here!
Money is the root of All Evil!
No need for the Dept. of Gov. Efficiency when we know the majority of Government waste comes from the DoD.
That's probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Grassley is not long from retirement. Who will replace him? We need hundreds more just like him. Our survival depends on it.
Gee, I wonder whose pockets that money went into?
All because of not being held accountable by Congress and DoJ.
This is why taxes need to stop immediately! Until the government can actually account for the money they should get nothing!
Our Government is terrible at managing our Tax Dollars. The corruption of money laundering our tax dollars to other countries need to stop. This is how politicians become rich.
Skeletor was to address the two trillion missing dollars to the public. On Sept. 10th 2001 . Quickly forgot on 911!
Last time this happened Rumsfeld told us money was missing - and the next day 9/11 happened. 💥
Good work Senator Grassley. Retool for the cyber weapons wars.
How the hell do you spend 65% of monies on un recoreded transactions lol 😆. That's like taking your yearly salary and throwing away 65% of it….nobody would do that with their own money. This is fraud.
black projects etc
That's $4.4million avg transaction. And to think, they'll go after you for a $400 mistake on your tax return.
been saying the same thing for as long as I can remember. I think these little skits from politicians are for you folks to comment on
how magnificent , and wonderful they are.
Makes you wonder why a certain place in the pentagon was destroyed on 9/11
Doge needs to dig deeply and make this a prerogative..
Hopefully this administration roots out the lost moneys and gets it back…
Everyone involved needs prison time.
Only 65% is he sure that the other 35%was actually used for it's intended use