DOGE has been doing a bang-up job to cut fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government, made more challenging by hysterical Democrats trying to stand in their way and lying about what they are doing.
They've found money. They're also looking into crazy things -- like millions of active social security numbers for people over 120 years old -- that are indicative of problems in the system.
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Their latest find is very concerning as well.
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…
"The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process)," DOGE wrote in a post on X. "In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going."
The agency thanked the U.S. Treasury for their work in identifying the optional field.
So, that looks like you could have had money--part of $4.7 trillion--going out with no idea where it was going.
Why would you have such a thing be optional? And how much of that money may have gone where it should not have gone and been misused, if you can't trace it? How much could have been funneled off? Just wild that this existed and one has to wonder if not following standard financial process was deliberate.
It shows they haven't given a darn about taking care of our money. And Democrats want to question Elon? Question all the "unelected bureaucrats" who left this in such a state as well as our government, who should have been doing their job. No wonder they didn't want him looking into this.
Musk congratulated the DOGE team, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury officials for making this discovery.
Major improvement in Treasury payment integrity going live!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
This was a combined effort of @DOGE, @USTreasury and @FederalReserve. Nice work by all. https://t.co/dpLmXRpufT
On top of that, DOGE has now posted on their official website that they've saved $55 billion from:
"fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings."
The website also lists a "wall of receipts" of all the items to which the monetary savings pertain. So, if the Democrats say there are no receipts, bull cookies, send them to the website.
This is a great thing, and thank you so much to all the folks involved getting this done.
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