For the eighth year in a row, the Pentagon has failed an annual audit, the Department of Defense said on Friday, continuing a pattern of financial accountability problems that have drawn bipartisan criticism and emerged as a campaign issue.

The Pentagon failed its financial audit for the eighth consecutive year, the Defense Department said Friday, highlighting the ongoing systemic challenge the nation’s largest federal agency faces in fully accounting for its assets.

The Department of Defense once again failed to pass its annual audit, the eighth time in as many years since Congress mandated a full accounting of the Pentagon’s expenses.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's investigation into him a "bunch of bull****" and said he believes it's about sending a message to retired service members not to speak out against the president. "This is very performative for him," Kelly told reporters about the investigation.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday nominated the vice commander of Special Operations Command, Lieutenant General Frank Donovan, to lead the U.S. military's Southern Command overseeing U.S. troops in Latin America after the previous commander retired early.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon would not release the "full, unedited video" of the controversial September strike on an alleged drug boat.

The Trump administration will repurpose $2.6 billion in military housing assistance to pay $1,776 “warrior dividend” bonuses to service members, according to a senior administration official.

Franklin Graham told participants at the Pentagon 's "Christmas Worship Service" that the "God of love" they're familiar with "also hates."

Netflix pulled the plug on "Boots," a series about gay teen joining military in the 1990s. The Pentagon previously slammed the show as promoting an "ideological agenda."

If adopted, the changes would fulfill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s pledge to disrupt the status quo and slash the number of four-star generals.

When it announced its investigation into Kelly, the Pentagon suggested Kelly’s statements interfered with the “loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces” by citing the federal law that prohibits such actions. The Defense Department also said it could recall Kelly to active duty for court-martial proceedings.

The Pentagon will have to provide summaries of nearly three years’ worth of internal safety investigations under the annual defense policy bill, a provision inserted to force transparency amid a rise in military aviation mishaps.