The sequestration cuts are not focused in specific areas but instead are across the board. According to Todd Harrison, a senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, this will make the sequestration process more difficult.
“It’s going to create a lot of mess, confusion and inefficiency within DOD,” Harrison said of the sequestration process. It cuts the important high priority programs along with the low priority programs. The joint fight striker gets cut as much as military bands. The Defense Department has no flexibility in how these cuts are made.”
This confusion comes as a recent General Accounting Office report found that the Pentagon simply could not be accurately audited. According to the report, the Defense Department has ineffective procedures for tracking spending, and is unable to determine if improper payments of taxpayers’ money were made.