[2banana]

I don’t understand these numbers.

The entire defense budget for 2015 was about $600 million.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget

[17th Miss Regt]

The entire defense budget for 2015 was about $600 million billion.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly. This is sensationalist nonsense.

[Leaning Right]

I don’t understand these numbers.

Here's a possible explanation, far down in the article:

At first glance adjustments totaling trillions may seem impossible. The amounts dwarf the Defense Department’s entire budget. Making changes to one account also require making changes to multiple levels of sub-accounts, however. That created a domino effect where, essentially, falsifications kept falling down the line. In many instances this daisy-chain was repeated multiple times for the same accounting item.