# DOGE; the department of Government Efficiency **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [November 13, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doge-the-department-of-government-efficiency/1010227 "2024-11-13T23:28:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 176
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doge-the-department-of-government-efficiency/1010227/176 "2024-11-26T21:06:51Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > The Pentagon just recently failed their 7th audit in a row. They can’t tell us where all the money is going. I keep on reading this over and over. But even though I was involved in outside audit support before I retired from a federal agency, I am not sure what this could mean. While we always passed (sometimes with moderate severity concerns corrected in the next annual audit), I felt that the outside auditors tended to focus on issues that would be important for a joint stock company, but were not as relevant to our fiscal integrity. [According to this article](https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/997961646/the-pentagon-has-never-passed-an-audit-some-senators-want-to-change-that), an example of the problem is that the Defense Department does not have a consolidated list of all its buildings in the United States. Sounds like busy work. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doge-the-department-of-government-efficiency/1010227)._