The Pentagon is facing calls for accountability from House lawmakers over a multibillion-dollar accounting error relating to military aid to Ukraine.
“Our committee is alarmed by the Pentagon’s financial management practices, particularly regarding the recent overestimation in the value of weapons sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion,” the Republican-led House Oversight Committee said in a statement on July 7.
Earlier in June, the Department of Defense (DoD) said it had overcounted the value of the weapons it sent to Ukraine over the past two years by $6.2 billion, calling the incident a series of “valuation errors.”
Now the Pentagon is facing more scrutiny over the error as lawmakers in Congress are demanding a briefing to grill Pentagon officials on how these accounting mistakes occurred and what improvements should be made to the DOD’s financial management systems to prevent similar problems in the future….