Jesse Watters Challenges Marco Rubio on ‘Corrupt’ Defense Spending: ‘Do You Have Any Idea Where the Money Goes?’

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Fox Information host Jesse Watters and Senator Marco Rubio engaged in a dialogue throughout Monday’s broadcast of “Jesse Watters Primetime” about wasteful spending by the Division of Protection.

“The Pentagon’s funds is greater than China, India, Russia, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Japan, and South Korea mixed,” Watters advised viewers. 

The evaluation comes because the Pentagon failed its fifth consecutive audit again in November, unable to account for greater than half of its belongings.

Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord dismissed information of the failed audit – they’ve failed each single one which has ever been carried out – as a “teachable second.”

“We give our army nearly a trillion {dollars} a 12 months. So the place does the cash go?” demanded Watters.

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Jon Stewart Takes on Pentagon Corruption and Protection Spending

Watters referenced a latest viral video of comic Jon Stewart interviewing Deputy Secretary of Protection Kathleen Hicks concerning the Pentagon’s $858 billion funds.

Stewart challenged Hicks regularly on alleged corruption on the Pentagon leading to her repeated condescending responses to his accusations.

The video went viral, amassing over 10 million views.

“The flexibility to cross an audit or, the truth that the DoD has not handed an audit is just not suggestive of waste, fraud, and abuse,” Hicks insisted.

“If I offer you a billion {dollars} and you’ll’t inform me what occurred to it, that to me is wasteful,” countered Stewart.

Stewart blasted Hicks noting that the Pentagon’s huge funds isn’t stopping our army servicemembers from being pressured to work off of meals stamps, one thing The Political Insider has coated extensively.

“We obtained out of 20 years of conflict and the Pentagon obtained a increase,” Stewart pressed. “I can’t determine how $850 billion to a division implies that the rank and file nonetheless should be on meals stamps.”

“To me, that’s f***ing corruption.”

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Watters Challenges Marco Rubio

Jesse Watters then introduced Senator Marco Rubio into the dialogue claiming “somebody’s getting wealthy,” and asking the Florida Republican, “Do you might have any concept the place the cash goes?”

Rubio contends that the method of bidding itself opens up the Pentagon to wasteful spending, as they get locked into sure contractors who then alter their costs because the mission speeds alongside.

“Oftentimes within the technique of creating it, they’ll come again and say, ‘Hey, that is gonna value greater than we thought once we put that bid out, once we supplied that bid. So we’re gonna have to extend the worth,’” Rubio defined.

“After which in the event you don’t fund it otherwise you don’t pay for it, then it’s like, ‘Oh, you’re towards nationwide safety or nationwide protection.’”

Rubio was one in every of 83 senators who voted in favor of the $858 billion Nationwide Protection Authorization Act in December.

Rubio additionally steered the protection contractors can basically cost any sum of money they need.

“There’s little or no competitors on these contracts, to allow them to just about nearly cost us something they need.”

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