Lawmakers and Defense Department leaders were more concerned about the impact of Congress not passing another budget than the DoD failing its audit in all but seven departments.
"It's very disruptive, and the audit highlights that," Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist told senators during a Wednesday hearing about the DoD's second audit, "and then the whole effect on the mission side on the families, on the deployments. Those are pretty serious problems." Read more on Military.com.