; Whereas the Pentagon continues to reveal high levels of waste and fraud, including, for example— (1) the Pentagon awarded a $7,000,000 cloud-computing contract to a 1-person company; (2) the Defense Logistics Agency lost track of $800,000,000 in construction projects; (3) last year, the Pentagon spent $4,600,000 on crab and lobster in an-end-of-the-year spree; and (4) the Pentagon had no way to track replacement parts for the $1,400,000,000,000 F–35 Joint Strike Fighter program; Whereas the military budget accounts for more than half of all discretionary spending; Whereas according to the Government Accountability Office, the Department of Defense has more unheeded audit recommendations than any other agency; Whereas it remains Congress’ intent to reduce defense waste, increase transparency, and reduce or eliminate poor management practices at the Department of Defense; Whereas Congress remains deeply concerned about the Department of Defense’s inability to achieve an unqualified audit opinion as it is the only Federal agency yet to pass one; Whereas every hour taxpayers are paying $32,080,000 for total cost of wars since 2001, and these endless wars have not made Americans safer or brought democracy or stability to the Middle East, indeed they have further destabilized the region and show no sign of actually ending or achieving any of the long-ago stated goals; Whereas interviews with senior military leaders and other senior officials showed many believed the war in Afghanistan to be unwinnable and knowingly misled the public for years; Whereas in addition to defense base spending in fiscal year 2020, Congress provided close to $72,000,000,000 for defense Overseas Contingency Operations, which has enabled continuing military actions and wars in several countries, without specific congressional authorization and many almost hidden from the American people