Ndemanga yoyipa yakunja ipeza kuti Defense Logistics Agency idasowa komwe idawononga ndalamazo.
Wolemba Bryan Bender, February 5, 2018, Politico.
Limodzi mwa mabungwe akulu a Pentagon silingathe kuwerengera ndalama zokwana madola mamiliyoni mazana ambiri, kampani yotsogola yowerengera ndalama ikutero. kuwongolera mkati zopezedwa ndi POLITICO zomwe zimafika pomwe Purezidenti Donald Trump akufuna kupititsa patsogolo bajeti yankhondo.
Ernst & Young adapeza kuti Defense Logistics Agency idalephera kulemba bwino ndalama zoposa $800 miliyoni pantchito yomanga, imodzi mwa zitsanzo zingapo pomwe ilibe njira yamapepala yanyumba ndi zida zamadola mamiliyoni ambiri. Kudera lonselo, kasamalidwe kake kazachuma ndi kofooka kotero kuti atsogoleri ake ndi mabungwe oyang'anira alibe njira yodalirika yowonera ndalama zomwe ili nazo, kampaniyo idachenjeza pakuwunika koyamba kwa wogula wamkulu wa Pentagon.
Kufufuzaku kumabweretsa mafunso atsopano ngati Dipatimenti ya Chitetezo ingathe kuyendetsa bwino bajeti yake yapachaka ya $ 700 biliyoni - osasiya mabiliyoni ena omwe Trump akufuna kupereka mwezi uno. Dipatimentiyi sinachitepo kafukufuku wathunthu ngakhale idalamulidwa ndi Congress - ndipo kwa opanga malamulo ena, zovuta zamabuku a Defense Logistics Agency zikuwonetsa kuti mwina sizingachitike.
"Ngati simungathe kutsatira ndalamazo, simudzatha kuchita kafukufuku," atero a Sen. Chuck Grassley, wa ku Iowa Republican komanso membala wamkulu wa makomiti a Budget ndi Finance, yemwe wakakamiza maulamuliro motsatizana kuti ayeretse. kukulitsa njira yowerengera ndalama ya Pentagon yowononga komanso yosalongosoka.
Ndalama zokwana madola 40 biliyoni pachaka ndi choyesa mu bwanji ntchitoyo ikhoza kukhala yosatheka. DLA imagwira ntchito ngati Walmart ya asitikali, yokhala ndi antchito 25,000 omwe amagwira ntchito pafupifupi 100,000 patsiku m'malo mwa Asilikali, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps ndi mabungwe ena ambiri aboma - pachilichonse kuyambira nkhuku mpaka mankhwala, zitsulo zamtengo wapatali. ndi mbali za ndege.
Koma monga momwe ofufuza adapeza, bungweli nthawi zambiri limakhala ndi umboni wochepa wotsimikizira komwe ndalama zambiri zikupita. Izi zikuwoneka kuti sizowopsa kwanthawi zonse kuti agwiritse ntchito ndalama ku Dipatimenti ya Chitetezo yonse, yomwe yaphatikizana $2.2 thililiyoni muzinthu.
Mu gawo limodzi la kafukufukuyu, lomwe linamalizidwa mkati mwa Disembala, Ernst & Young adapeza kuti zolakwika m'mabuku abungweli zidakwana $465 miliyoni. ntchito yomanga idapereka ndalama za Army Corps of Engineers ndi mabungwe ena. Pantchito yomanga yomwe idakalipobe, inalibe zolemba zokwanira - kapena zolemba zilizonse - pakugwiritsa ntchito ndalama zina zokwana $384 miliyoni.
Bungweli silinathenso kupereka umboni wochirikiza zinthu zambiri zomwe zidalembedwa mwanjira ina - kuphatikiza zolemba zamtengo wa $ 100 miliyoni zamakompyuta omwe amachita bizinesi yatsiku ndi tsiku.
"Zolemba, monga umboni wosonyeza kuti katunduyo adayesedwa ndikuvomerezedwa, sizinasungidwe kapena kupezeka," idatero.
Lipotilo, lomwe limakhudza chaka chachuma chomwe chinatha Sept. 30, 2016, chinapezanso kuti $ 46 miliyoni muzinthu zamakompyuta "zinalembedwa molakwika" ngati za Defense Logistics Agency. Idachenjezanso kuti bungweli silingayanjanitse zowerengera zake zonse ndi ma ledger Dipatimenti ya Treasury.
Bungweli likutsimikiza kuti lithana ndi zovuta zake zambiri kuti pamapeto pake lipeze kafukufuku wabwino.
"Kufufuza koyambirira kwatipatsa mwayi wodziyimira pawokha pazachuma chomwe tikuchita," Army Lt. Gen. Darrell Williams, mkulu wa bungweli, adalemba poyankha zomwe Ernst & Young adapeza. "Tadzipereka kuthetsa zofooka zakuthupi ndikulimbitsa maulamuliro amkati okhudza ntchito za DLA."
M'mawu ake ku POLITICO, bungweli lidasunganso kuti silinadabwe ndi ziganizozi.
"DLA ndiye woyamba kukula kwake komanso zovuta zake mu dipatimenti yachitetezo kuti ziwunikidwe kotero sitinkayembekezera kuti tipeza malingaliro owerengera 'oyera' poyambira," idatero. "Chofunika kwambiri ndikugwiritsa ntchito mayankho a auditor kuti tiyang'ane zoyesayesa zathu zokonzanso ndi kukonza mapulani, ndikukulitsa phindu la kafukufukuyu. Ndi zimene tikuchita panopa.”
Zowonadi, olamulira a Trump akuumirira kuti atha kuchita zomwe m'mbuyomu sakanatha.
"Kuyambira mu 2018, kufufuza kwathu kudzachitika chaka chilichonse, ndi malipoti operekedwa Nov. 15," mkulu wa bajeti ya Pentagon, David Norquist, anauza Congress mwezi watha.
Kuyesetsa kwa Pentagon, komwe kudzafuna gulu lankhondo la owerengera pafupifupi 1,200 m'dipatimenti yonseyi, kudzakhalanso okwera mtengo - mpaka pafupifupi $ 1 biliyoni.
Norquist adati zidzawononga ndalama zokwana $367 miliyoni kuti zichite kafukufukuyu - kuphatikiza mtengo wolemba ganyu makampani owerengera odziyimira pawokha ngati Ernst & Young - ndi ndalama zina $551 miliyoni kuti abwerere ndikukonza njira zowerengera ndalama zomwe zili zofunika kwambiri pakuwongolera bwino ndalama.
"Ndikofunikira kuti Congress ndi anthu aku America azidalira kasamalidwe ka DoD pa dola iliyonse ya okhometsa msonkho," adatero Norquist.
Koma pali umboni wochepa kuti gulu lankhondo lizitha kuwerengera zomwe lakhala likuchita posachedwa.
"Ernst & Young sakanatha kupeza umboni wokwanira, wokwanira kuti athandizire ndalama zomwe zanenedwa m'mabuku azachuma a DLA," woyang'anira wamkulu wa Pentagon, woyang'anira wamkati yemwe adalamula kuwunikanso kwakunja, adamaliza popereka lipoti ku DLA.
"Sitingathe kudziwa zotsatira za kusowa kwa umboni wokwanira wowerengera ndalama pazachuma chonse cha DLA," lipoti lake likumaliza.
Mneneri wa Ernst & Young anakana kuyankha mafunso, kulozera POLITICO ku Pentagon.
Grassley - yemwe anali wotsutsa kwambiri pomwe lingaliro loyera la a Marine Corps lidayenera kutulutsidwa mu 2015 chifukwa cha "ziganizo zabodza" - mobwerezabwereza adaimbidwa kuti "kusunga ndalama za anthu sikungakhale mu DNA ya Pentagon."
Iye akadali wokayikitsa kwambiri za ziyembekezo zamtsogolo malinga ndi zomwe zikuwululidwa.
"Ndikuganiza kuti mwayi wofufuza bwino za DoD panjira ndi zero," adatero Grassley poyankhulana. "Makina a feeder satha kupereka deta. Adzalephera kulephera asanayambe.”
Koma adati akuthandizira kupitilizabe ngakhale kuwunika koyera kwa Pentagon sikungachitike. Anthu ambiri amaona kuti ndi njira yokhayo yopititsira patsogolo kasamalidwe ka ndalama zambiri za okhometsa msonkho.
"Lipoti lililonse la kafukufukuyu lithandiza DLA kumanga maziko abwino operekera malipoti azachuma ndikupereka mwayi wopeza malingaliro abwino owerengera ndalama zathu," bungweli limatero. "Zomwe tapezazi zimathandizanso kuwongolera kwathu kwamkati, zomwe zimathandizira kukweza mtengo wamtengo ndi zomwe zimagwiritsidwa ntchito popanga zisankho."
