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Where would a government department get this much actual money? Do they just have unlimited debit accounts? At some point someone in the treasury has to transfe
by obblekk 9y ago
Where would a government department get this much actual money? Do they just have unlimited debit accounts? At some point someone in the treasury has to transfer the money and notice it’s above the budget right?
- dekrg 9y agoIt's entirely possible that this spending is within their budgets. The article talks about unauthorized spending not that they had extra money or did over budget spending. So a lot of it could depend on how one defines unauthorized spending.
- cdetrio 9y agoIt actually does say that the Army spent over their budget: Skidmore got involved last spring when he heard Catherine Austin Fitts, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, refer to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015. Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress.
- dekrg 9y agoUS budget for 2015 was 3.688 trillion USD[0]. There are many things that are possible, but US army spending nearly double of the entire US budget without anyone noticing isn't one of them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_States_federal_budget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_States_federal_bud...