Thirty years on the high-risk list.
The Department of War has never earned a clean financial-audit opinion — the only major federal department that can say so. The record below is the case for budget data that is accurate to the line item, traceable to its source, and able to reconcile on demand: the discipline a clean opinion requires, and the discipline this monitor practices.
The audit record
Why this monitor
The disclaimers trace to one root cause: financial data that cannot be reliably traced from a recorded transaction back to its authorization. Every figure on this monitor resolves to a published source and recomputes against the budget's own arithmetic — discretionary base separated from mandatory, both department dimensions reconciling to the grand total, the long real-dollar series matching the publisher's own growth rates. That is precisely the data discipline a clean opinion demands, demonstrated on the public record before the December 2028 deadline.
Sources are linked at each node. Disclaimer facts are drawn from the reachable GAO, DoD OIG, and CRS records and the DoD Agency Financial Report.