Twenty-six clean audits — and the one thing no auditor will sign.
On books dominated by hundreds of billions in Medicare and Medicaid transactions, HHS has earned an unmodified (clean) opinion on its basic financial statements for 26 consecutive years. The one statement the auditor declines to opine on is the 75-year projection of Medicare's social-insurance obligations — a forecast that is inherently uncertain, not a failure to account for recorded money. This monitor keeps the audited past and the projected future strictly apart.
The audit record
Why this monitor
A multi-year clean-opinion streak on the basic statements, prove HHS can trace its recorded transactions reliably from a posted entry back to its authorization. What the auditor will notcertify is the 75-year present value of Medicare's obligations — and that limitation is honest, because no one can audit a forecast. Every figure on this monitor resolves to a published source and recomputes against the budget's own arithmetic, with mandatory entitlements kept strictly separate from the discretionary base. That is the same discipline a clean opinion demands, demonstrated on the public record.
Sources are linked at each node. The clean-opinion record and the social-insurance disclaimer are drawn from the HHS Agency Financial Report and GAO financial-audit reporting.