Pete Sepp highlights billions of dollars in Defense Department waste

National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp details some of the Defense Department’s wasteful spending projects over the last 30 years—from thousand-dollar toilet seat covers to low priority, million-dollar weapons systems. “It’s no wonder that the Government Accountability Office has put no fewer than five areas of Pentagon spending—including the entire contracting and weapon systems acquisition operations—on their high-risk list for waste, fraud, and abuse,” he says.