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Mark Pocan: “They've never passed an audit. The last four, they failed.”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 1:10:22

And you might have single bids, single company bidding on it, but we pay. They've lost. They've not passed the last. They've never passed an audit. The last four, they failed. And in one of the last, I think it was the last audit, they can't account for more than about a third of their equipment. They don't know where it's even at. (1:10:22–1:10:25)

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Asserts that the Pentagon has failed its last four audits.

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