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Posted on 02/12/2026 1:12:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has introduced legislation to audit the Pentagon with years-long intentions to ensure that United States taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck, according to a copy of the bill first shared with Military.com.
The legislation, called the “Reviewing Every Check and Each Invoice Purchasing Troops’ Supplies” Act or the ‘‘RECEIPTS Act,” comes as President Donald Trump has openly called for increasing the current 2026 Fiscal Year defense budget as much as $600 billion, hypothetically totaling $1.5 trillion based on current numbers.
Ernst is calling for that defense budget to symbiotically help both warfighters and taxpayers, aiming for a 2028 timeline to get the Pentagon back on track and fiscally responsible after a string of failed audits that date back about a decade.
I’m declaring war against waste in Washington, and battle No. 1 is accounting for every cent spent at the Pentagon—the only federal agency that has never passed an audit. I’m a firm believer that the dollars we spend on the military should go to our troops, not lost to fraud, waste or abuse. - Sen. Joni Ernst to Military.com
“My new legislation gives the Pentagon the tools to do just that by streamlining and modernizing its auditing system. This is mission critical because every misspent dollar could come at the price of protecting our nation or shortchanging our servicemembers," the senator added.
Putting a Plan in Place
One of the keystones of the bill, according to Ernst’s office, would be to require new resources for artificial intelligence and business systems to save both money and time while reviewing the military’s invoices and spending.
Other notable aspects of the introduced legislation include:
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
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Realistically, it isn’t possible. Too big, too many classified and black areas, and the money flows are too complex in and complex out.
An audit is probably impossible... unless of course Elon is allowed free reign to do so.
And it fails another audit. Then what?
They audit the place every year (at least big chunks of it.). It’s not that they don’t audit, it’s that the military sucks at accounting.
Passing a law that pretty much states, “Stop sucking” is pretty funny.
Like Congress and a bunch of Accountants and Lawyers would have a clue on what was a good buy and which was bad, when context is so far above their collective heads.
It’ll make for some good headlines though.
How’d he say it... “Fight, fight, fight”
Tariffs for the Military, the rest of us none.
Trump Deep Soviet State II. Jack boots doen Pennsylvania Avenue.
Exactly. They will allow the audit to how many ships were built and overhauled, how much was spent on food and fuel and spare parts and other logistics, but it would be extremely easy to hide a few hundred million here and a few billion there with no one the wiser. Top secret projects and development cost overruns are impossible to audit.
Maybe they could skip over the audit for now, and redesign their budget system and their contracting system so that in the future, real audits could be done without so much difficulty.
Government record keeping — especially financial records — could be greatly improved.
Find the corrupt people - in or outside the military (there must be a lot and I’m not talking black ops etc. just real corruption) - lock them up and throw away the key. JMHO
How about the fed, Joni?
From the movie “Independence Day”.
“You don’t think they really spend $40,000 apiece on hammers do you?”
I can see why even if not corrupt the US military would be hard to audit
“On September 2, 2025, Ernst announced that she would not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate.”
https://ballotpedia.org/Joni_Ernst
I think Trump needs 4 more years to clean up the mess🤣🤣🤣. I tell my liberal friends this all the time.
But you're ignoring Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, AFDC, .... You're ignoring fraud in Minnesota, fraud in California, fraud everywhere else illegal aliens are getting government benefits ...
Sorry, Joni ... I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
Very much agree.
Audit ft. Knox first
The waste fraud and abuse is probably enough to pay off the debt and do away with income tax.
While an audit is probably a good idea, it shouldn’t be only the Pentagon. Seems a lot of the welfare programs need serious auditing (ex $9B lost in Wisconsin)
Was there anything preventing Hegseth from starting this process last year?
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