President Trump may want a Defense Department rebrand — but rather than changing its name to “Department of War,” he should force the Pentagon to stop being a department of waste.

Our investigators at Open the Books last month identified 20 areas of fiscal concern within the Pentagon, many of them tolerated for decades, that damage its warfighting abilities .

The Defense Department has long been a “department of everything,” running its own schools, grocery stores, golf courses and more — splitting its focus and allowing for rampant overspending.

The department has never passed an audit, uses overclassification to wrongly conceal programs from oversight, and squanders billions every year through lax contracting practices and questionable congressional earmarks.

Even the most fiscal

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