could have been a juicier excerpt…
Ruh Roh! Bet some crooks are going to have a hard time sleeping tonight.
Without more, it’s going to be hard for those of us who are not forensic accountants to recognize the significance of this fact.
No codes entered for black budget items or outright theft of government funds.
BIG BALLZ RULEZ!!!!!!!!!!!
I love those guys!!!!!
I did not see one mention of any missing ID codes being found. Please point it out to me in case I missed it.
$55 billion out of a $2 trillion goal is like spitting inthe wind. Like deportations, just hardly a good start on the matter so far. I surely do wish them well though.
$4.7 trillion is close to the entire Federal Budget
It’s important that to follow through will have perp walks
I suggest asking a programmer if that field was ever used. You will find a lot of garbage in old systems
No blog pimping allowed.......
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Sunday that it had discovered approximately $4.7 trillion in government expenditures that are essentially untraceable due to missing account identification codes.
In a post on X, DOGE announced that it had identified nearly $4.7 trillion in Department of the Treasury payments that did not have a Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) code associated with them, which are used to link payments to a budget line item. “In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible,” DOGE posted. “As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going.”
During a joint press conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week, DOGE head Elon Musk referred to the missing ID codes as a primary reason why “departments can’t pass audits.” “[Y]ou can’t reconcile blank checks,” he observed. “You’ve got comment fields that are also blanks. You don’t know why the payment was made.”
Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur who was tapped by Trump to lead DOGE, went on to discuss other problematic aspects of the Treasury Department’s payment system.
“Then we’ve got this truly absurd … ‘do not pay’ list, which can take up to a year for an organization to get on the [list],” he explained. “We’re talking about terrorist organizations. We’re talking about known fraudsters, known aspects of waste, known things that do not match any congressional appropriation, [and it] can take up to a year to get on the list. And even what’s on the list, the list is not used. It’s mind-blowing. … [W]e’re really just talking about adding common-sense controls that should be present, that haven’t been present.”
In another X post published on Sunday, Musk highlighted an oddity present in the Social Security database that lists millions of individuals who have almost certainly passed away, including “more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age range, more than 3.5 million in the 140-149 range and more than 1.3 million in the 150-159 range.” “Having tens of millions of people marked in Social Security as ‘ALIVE’ when they are definitely dead is a HUGE problem,” Musk noted.
As reported by the New York Post on Sunday, the issue has been known to the Social Security Administration (SSA) for some time. In two separate audits in 2023 and 2015, an SSA watchdog also found millions of individuals over 100 years of age in the system, but “[i]n both audits, the inspectors general concluded that ‘almost none’ were actually cashing Social Security checks — despite the glaring accounting errors identifying people born in 1886 and 1893 as still living, in two extreme cases.”
However, the audits “did reveal that around 531 million unique Social Security numbers are in circulation — and that ‘thousands’ may be in use to commit identity fraud.” For example, the 2015 audit “showed about $3.1 billion in earnings reported by employers or self-employed individuals who were not the actual Social Security number holder.”
Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for Economic and Social Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, told the New York Post that a vast black market of Social Security numbers of deceased individuals exists, in which illegal immigrants are “stealing identities of people who are deceased but not marked in the Social Security system.”
In all, DOGE has so far identified $55 billion in federal expenditures that have been targeted for elimination, according to an unofficial tally, with the goal of finding $2 trillion in government waste by July of next year.
Dan Hart
“Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for Economic and Social Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, told the New York Post that a vast black market of Social Security numbers of deceased individuals exists, in which illegal immigrants are “stealing identities of people who are deceased but not marked in the Social Security system.”
How Democrats commit election fraud. We all know that the dead are voting. Find out who is registered to vote with the dead soc sec num.
From the title, I thought they’d found the codes.
I wish I was more optimistic about punishment for this fraud and abuse. I imagine this fraud is similar to the bidens....numerous bank accounts and shell companies funneling lower dollar amounts to the recipients. I would like hard proof of fraud against those guilty but think it will be hard to find.
What is the function of Oversight Committees?
Brings to mind as reported that the Obozo’s SSN was originally assigned to a guy who lived in Connecticut and died in the 1930s. Those details might not be accurate but the point is that SSNs never get reused but the Obozo had a used SSN. It’s past time for the fake Obozo to get thoroughly investigated.
BTTT
There is NO EXCUSE for missing information on massive federal expenditures. Businesses and banks must balance their cash DAILY. There must be receipts and a paper trail to account for ALL expenditures.
The only explanation for this missing data is THEFT on a monstrous scale.
There is no need for ANY federal accounting employees at the U.S. Treasury Department if they are just going to push pallets of cash out the freight door with no supporting paperwork or tracking.
They have said there is no tracking data. What about records of TREASURY transfers into banks? Banks don’t just receive gigantic payments and throw them into a SLUSH FUND. The money has to go into SOMEONE’S ACCOUNT when it gets to a bank.
If the U.S. Treasury deposits billions this week into banks there are banking records showing what accounts received the deposits. If a big bank gets $1 billion from the Treasury Department, the bank MUST keep records of EXACTLY what accounts received the money. There is a gigantic system in place for daily movements of mountains of money flowing into banks.
If a billion dollars left the U.S. Treasury yesterday, it went into SPECIFIC BANK ACCOUNTS.
I believe there will be some reconciliation of these transfers that DOGE is not discussing right now.
Keeping deceased persons SS numbers gives the rats & NGOs a never-ending supply of numbers to commit fraud upon the systems, and, where permitted, to sign up to vote.
The illegal aliens won’t necessarily vote, but the system will generate a ballot for them, which can then be used by the rats to vote for someone else in the system... who doesn’t vote.
THIS IS ONE OF THE CHIEF WAYS THE VOTER FRAUD IS COMMITTED!
Before this investigation is over, we will learn BANKS are accomplices to this theft inside the federal government.
Federal money is flowing like a fire hose into all the big banks. They don’t WANT to ask too many questions or the river of money might stop.
A bank robber gets a long prison sentence for stealing $10,000. These are thefts running into the billons of dollars !
THEY DO NOT HAVE ID ON WHAT THE PAYMENT WAS FOR-—
BUT THEY CAN FIND WHERE THE MONEY ACTUALLY WENT.
THERE ARE SOME SERIOUS WORRIES HAPPENING IN THE DEM WORLD RIGHT NOW, IMO.