Pentagon chiefs ‘buried report saying they wasted $125BILLION on employing 1million people in desk jobs because they feared Congress would cut the defense budget’
Report pointed out the Pentagon employed 1,014,000 back-office personnel
That is almost as many as the 1,300,000 service personnel on active duty
Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work shelved plans to save $125billion
The report recommended reducing staff and phasing out expensive contractors
Mr Work said there was ‘some truth’ that Pentagon was ‘bloated organization’
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to eliminate ‘government waste’
By CHRIS SUMMERS
DailyMail.com
6 December 2016
Pentagon chiefs have been accused of ‘burying’ a report which showed they wasted $125billion, because they feared it would prompt Congress to slash the defense budget.
In January 2015, the Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work commissioned a study to look at various options to cut costs and improve efficiency.
The Department of Defense’s total budget is $580billion and amounts to 16 per cent of all federal spending.
But when the findings highlighted widespread bureaucratic waste and overspending on staff, the report was shelved, sources told the Washington Post.
The report highlighted some shocking figures – the Pentagon employs 1,014,000 people to do back-office work. That is almost as many as the 1,300,000 service personnel on active duty, the lowest figure since 1940.
The evidence will help back up calls by Donald Trump to cut ‘government waste and budget gimmicks’ when he gets into office.
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