[Tench_Coxe]

"In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Hawley, Vance and other Republican senators said, “By using creative accounting to conceal the actual cost of supporting Ukraine, you appear to be circumventing the American people’s elected representatives. Congress, not DOD, possesses the power of the purse.”"

Austin: "we'll do whatever the heck we want and there's nothing you can do about it"

[Dilbert San Diego]

I don’t understand this.

Accounting errors , or different calculations of values of property, do not affect the cash in the bank.

So it confuses me that somehow we’re trying to say we can spend more money in Ukraine because of an accounting error.

Talking about replacement cost or depreciated values of equipment does not affect how much money you have in the bank to spend on something.