Bernie Sanders: “Elon Musk Is Right”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Elon Musk is right regarding some of the federal government’s wasteful spending.

In particular, the Pentagon’s massive budget.

“Elon Musk is right. The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions,” Sanders said.

“Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud. That must change,” he added.

Elon Musk is right.

The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions.

Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.

That must change.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 1, 2024

“Glad you realized Elon Musk is not the problem. The problem is the federal government which has wasted and lost trillions of dollars of taxpayer money,” Collin Rugg commented.

Glad you realized Elon Musk is not the problem.

The problem is the federal government which has wasted and lost trillions of dollars of taxpayer money.

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 1, 2024

“Welcome home, Bernie,” Matt Gaetz replied.

Welcome home, Bernie

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) December 1, 2024

“Instead of posting, VOTE to approve Republican nominees. Which you won’t do. You’re a feckless old man who posts something now-and-then, but when it’s time to use political power, you do what the military industrial complex orders you to,” Mike Cernovich replied.

Instead of posting, VOTE to approve Republican nominees. Which you won’t do. You’re a feckless old man who posts something now-and-then, but when it’s time to use political power, you do what the military industrial complex orders you to.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 1, 2024

Per Mediaite:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday that he agreed with Elon Musk about reining in some government spending, particularly regarding Defense Department spending.

Musk and venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy have been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to find and eliminate spending deemed unnecessary.

The pair will run the advisory committee the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) once Trump takes office next month.

On his X page on Sunday, Sanders offered support for Musk – a billionaire who he has criticized in the past.

JUST IN: US Senator Bernie Sanders says “Elon Musk is right” and agrees for the Department of Government Efficiency to investigate the Pentagon after it failed its 7th consecutive financial audit. pic.twitter.com/1k9aQymGEd

— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) December 1, 2024

As Sanders noted, the Pentagon failed its seventh consecutive audit.

Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row, unable to fully account for $824B budget https://t.co/VKjIhCByZy

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 17, 2024

Fox News reports:

The Pentagon failed its seventh consecutive audit on Friday as the agency was unable to fully account for its massive $824 billion budget, though officials were confident the Department of Defense “has turned a corner” in understanding its budgetary challenges going forward.

The audits resulted in a disclaimer of opinion, which means auditors were provided with insufficient information to form an accurate opinion of the accounts.

Of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) 28 reporting entities that had standalone audits, 9 received an unmodified audit opinion, 1 received a qualified opinion, 15 received disclaimers, and 3 opinions remain pending, the Pentagon said.

But with the goal of achieving a clean audit by 2028, Michael McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer, said the agency “has turned a corner in its understanding of the depth and breadth of its challenges.”

“Momentum is on our side, and throughout the Department there is strong commitment—and belief in our ability—to achieve an unmodified audit opinion,” he said in a statement.

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