{"id":392134,"date":"2019-01-09T01:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pentagon-let-28b-in-funds-expire-last-year\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T01:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:54:33","slug":"presstv-pentagon-let-28b-in-funds-expire-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pentagon-let-28b-in-funds-expire-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Pentagon let $28b in funds expire last year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Department of Defense (DoD) allowed $27.7 billion in funds to expire last year, a new government watchdog report says, boosting calls by Democrats that Pentagon dollars should be trimmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s Inspector General (IG) office made the announcement in a 33-page <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2019\/Jan\/08\/2002077454\/-1\/-1\/1\/UNDERSTANDING%20THE%20RESULTS%20OF%20THE%20AUDIT%20OF%20THE%20DOD%20FY%202018%20FINANCIAL%20STATEMENTS.PDF\">document<\/a> about fiscal year 2018 released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the DoD does not spend its funds within the legal timeframes, the funds expire. In FY 2018, the DoD reported $27.7 billion of expired funds, meaning that, generally, the DoD can no longer use those funds for new spending,\u201d read the report.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, now in control of the House, have been calling for using the extra money going to Pentagon for domestic priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration wants<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/12\/10\/582487\/Trump-calls-for-raise-in-Pentagon-budget-to-750bn-Reports\"> some $750 billion <\/a>for defense in the budget, a figure reportedly considered too high by the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which followed the Pentagon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/DetailFr\/2018\/11\/18\/580338\/US-Department-of-Defense-military-services-firstever-audit-cyber-security-David-Norquist\">first ever audit<\/a>, was meant at enabling \u201cCongress and the public to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/08\/585250\/Pentagon-let-28b-in-funds-expire-last-year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Defense (DoD) allowed $27.7 billion in funds to expire last year, a new government watchdog report says, boosting calls by Democrats that Pentagon dollars should be trimmed. The department\u2019s Inspector General (IG) office made the announcement in a 33-page document about fiscal year 2018 released Tuesday. \u201cIf the DoD does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}