Posted on 02/12/2025 5:59:16 AM PST by MtnClimber
Elon Musk said there would be investigations into how members of the federal bureaucracy have become rich on relatively modest salaries, during an Oval Office event with President Trump on Tuesday:
DONALD TRUMP: And also, could you mention some of the things that your team has found? Some of the crazy numbers, including the woman who walked away with about $30 million?
ELON MUSK: Well, we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position, which is, you know, what happened at USAID.
We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing, in which case we should take their investment advice, perhaps. But mysteriously, they get wealthy. We don't know why. Where does it come from?
And I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at taxpayer expense. That's the honest truth of it.
So, you know, we're looking at, say—well, if you look at, say, Treasury, for example—basic controls that should be in place, that are in place in any company, such as making sure that any given payment has a payment categorization code, that there is a comment field that describes the payment, and that if a payment is on the "Do Not Pay" list, that you don't actually pay it. None of those things are true currently.
So the reason that departments can't pass audits is because the payments don't have a categorization code. It's like just a massive number of blank checks just flying out the building. So you can't reconcile blank checks.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Sounds like a lot of big time corruption was being ignored.
Say It Ain’t So, Joe
BTTT
I hope he has really good security.
We’re just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they’re very good at investing, in which case we should take their investment advice, perhaps. But mysteriously, they get wealthy. We don’t know why. Where does it come from?
Love this line, from yesterday’s presser.
I don’t see where he specifically mentions Samantha Power, though.
Maybe that should’ve been in ( ) ?
He said USAID! She was in charge of it!
I know.
I’m referring to the headline vs article.
Thx, tho.
Also need to look at Fed judges and prosecutors.
This has been going on for many years....Not many people even looked at it or thought about it for many years...
Is the 1-800-DOGETIP line up yet? Let’s all get involved.
I was nervous with both he and President Trump being interviewed in front of windows.
Why are blank checks leaving the treasury and whose names are on them?
Embezzlement
Musk: “Treasury, for example, should have basic controls in place, as in any company:”
<><>making sure a payment has a payment categorization code,
<><>that there is a “comment field” that describes the payment,
<><>and if a payment is on a “Do Not Pay” list, that you don’t actually pay it.
<><>None of those things exist at the Biden Treasury currently.
Biden’s departments can’t pass audits
<><>b/c payments don’t have a categorization code.
<><>just a massive number of blank checks flying out the building........
<><>you can’t reconcile blank checks.
Biden hired Nigerian Wally-Adeyemo to oversee payments of $6 trillion tax dollars.
The Prince!
If that isn’t a sh!t-eating grin of a lifelong grifter...I don’t know what is.
...until yesterday.
I can’t state loudly enough how much this topic pleases me.
Those windows in the Oval Office could take a round from a 50 caliber and and not blink.
There is always the danger of missals, but hopefully our protection system will protect the President from that kind of attack.
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