Posted on 02/11/2025 10:16:42 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
Simple things were left blank:
--Payment categories
--Payment rationales
--Basic audit controls
The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week.
(snip)
This isn't about spreadsheets anymore. This isn't about waste or controls or management. This is about who controls the machine.
Because when you find something like empty fields in Treasury's payment system, you're not just finding missing data. You're finding purpose. When basic controls sit blank while billions vanish weekly, that's not incompetence. That's design.
(Excerpt) Read more at eko.substack.com ...
A real.hard.look.
bkmk
The communist far-lefties have begun walking a fine line. Bonzo Soetoro’s FBI arrested, tortured and locked up thousands of Americans for their parts in the FBI’s Jay6 clown show. They better start reacting the same way to the RATS’ antics.
It may be apples and oranges, but this makes me think of Trump’s legal case where payments to his attorney were entered as “payment to attorney” or something like that — which somehow became a felony. There was a data field. It was filled in. It was properly descriptive of the payment. But Trump became a felon because a judge discerned some sort of effort to deceive.
Well, now we have necessary data fields purposely left blank in a blatant effort to deceive. I wonder what the courts will that of that?
The bureaucrat who was in charge of approving disbursements at the Treasury Dept. had not turned down a SINGLE one in the years he held the post and he tried to prevent Musk’s tech experts from even accessing the system he was in charge of.
Article I Section 7 Clause 1
All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
This is the power to authorize spending. Congress must pass legislation to authorize the raising of revenue to be spent on something.
Article I Section 9 Clause 7
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law;
This is the power to appropriate the money from the Treasury. Congress makes the funds available to be spent.
Article II Section 3
he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed
This is the power to spend. The President has the power to execute the laws that appropriated the money from Congress to enable the laws passed by Congress.
Article I Section 9 Clause 7
and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
This is the power to audit and reconcile that the money spent was used for the purposes that they were authorized and appropriated.
This is what President Trump is trying to do, and this is what Democrats in Congress are trying to get the Courts to block.
President Trump must cite Article I Section 9 and tell the courts that he is taking care that the laws are being faithfully executed, and doesn't recognize their power to interfere with his Executive authority to do so.
H/T - PJ (Political Junkie Too)
Brilliant observation. Thank you. This should be dispository [a standard legal term not apparently in the worthless Google dictionary.]
I believe I read that they are thinking about impeaching him, which I agree is what should take place. Let Trump fill these judgeships.
Gets the credit.
Find out who is getting this money and release the list. I am certain we will be shocked who is getting these payments
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