I really wish politicians would resist pouncing on every bit of information in any context to support an ideological position. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29 year old topic du jour, believes that quantifying accounting errors in dollar terms is sufficient to claim that between 1998 and 2015 the Pentagon lost $21 Trillion, which is actually more than the total budget of the Pentagon for the entire history of the country.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/38941/ocasio-cortez-gets-roasted-after-strikingly-ryan-saavedra

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/3/18122947/pentagon-accounting-error-medicare-for-all