{"id":40863,"date":"2020-07-06T15:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/07\/06\/harker-takes-over-as-acting-pentagon-comptroller\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:22:15","slug":"harker-takes-over-as-acting-pentagon-comptroller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2020\/07\/06\/harker-takes-over-as-acting-pentagon-comptroller\/","title":{"rendered":"Harker takes over as acting Pentagon comptroller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Thomas Harker, the current U.S. Navy comptroller, has been named the acting comptroller for the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harker was \u201cdesignated the authority\u201d of the undersecretary of defense (comptroller) role on June 26, according to a department spokesman, following the official resignation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2020\/06\/16\/elaine-mccusker-pentagon-comptroller-resigns\/\">acting Comptroller Elaine McCusker<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harker will also continue to serve as the Navy comptroller, as job he has held since being sworn into office in January 2018. A 20-year veteran of the Coast Guard, Harker previously worked in financial management roles in the Department of Veterans Affairs as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comptroller is the top financial expert for the Defense Department, helping to oversee the creation of the department\u2019s budget and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2019\/11\/16\/the-pentagon-completed-its-second-audit-what-did-it-find\/\">manage the annual audit<\/a> of the Pentagon. Harker becomes the third person to fill the job during the Trump administration, although only David Norquist was actually confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Norquist was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2019\/01\/02\/pentagon-comptroller-to-serve-as-acting-deputy-secretary\/\">promoted to deputy secretary of defense<\/a> in early 2019, McCusker, who had been confirmed as deputy comptroller, was named acting comptroller. Although she was announced as the nominee for the job, McCusker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2020\/03\/02\/mccusker-has-pentagon-comptroller-nomination-killed-report\/\">saw her nomination pulled<\/a> following revelations that she had, in internal emails, questioned the legality of holding up weapons funding for Ukraine, a key issue in the impeachment of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With no official nominee announced for the comptroller spot and a dwindling Senate calendar, it is entirely possible that the comptroller role will be filled by an acting official for the entire second half of the Trump administration\u2019s first term. 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