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Pentagon

GAO Finds Pentagon Had $128 Billion In Unused Funds Over 10-Year Stretch

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021

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GAO Finds Pentagon Had $128 Billion In Unused Funds Over 10-Year Stretch

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Pentagon returned nearly $128 billion in unused funds to the Treasury Department between fiscal years 2009 and 2019, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. The department accounted for nearly half of all cancelled appropriations across the federal government during that period, according to the report. A provision in the FY ‘20 NDAA mandated that GAO assess the level of unused funds across all agencies, not only DoD, finding that about 1.6 percent of the total available budget…

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