Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are still at it, despite unconscionable attacks by the left and even the terrorism against Tesla, one of Musk's companies. 

DOGE has made some stunning discoveries. They also cleaned up a lot of waste. They even helped identify alleged illegal voting.

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Now DOGE has discovered something else that is concerning. Elon rightly calls it a "big deal."

Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to:
-Missing budget codes
-Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget)
-Budget codes… https://t.co/Jmuc1cj9D7

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 29, 2025

Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to:

-Missing budget codes
-Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget)
-Budget codes with no authorization (i.e. the budget had already been fully spent)

They just prevented $334 million in improper payments. This raises big questions about what was going on before they stopped all this and found these issues. Imagine all the money flying out the door before this without the proper codes.

DOGE explained in February the problem with the Treasury system -- that the Treasury Access Symbol (TAS), an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item which they called "standard financial process," was "optional" for about $4.7 trillion in payments, and was often left blank, so that you couldn't trace the payments. DOGE stopped that so they can now trace the payments. 

The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).

In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025

So checks were going out for some time without the ability to trace where they were going. For $4.7 trillion. 

What DOGE is finally bringing after who knows how long and how much money was wrongly being paid out, is some accountability. What a radical concept. It's crazy that it took this long and this administration to do it. But it's a comment on how entrenched this behemoth of spending is and how much some people don't want to clean it up.

So let me get this straight, our government was handing out trillions with fewer checks than a Chuck E. Cheese arcade, and we’re just now fixing that? How is this not the biggest story in the country?

— The Undercurrent (@NotTheirScript) April 29, 2025

It is a huge story, and that's why Democrats have been throwing such a fit.

They don't want it fixed.

Elon Musk and DOGE are bringing much-needed accountability to our out-of-control bureaucracy as they take a chainsaw to rampant waste, fraud, and abuse.

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