Following the money:
https://dogegov.com/dogeclock<<<<
"REVEREND"-mommy, I can't wait for DOGE to examine the $350 BILLION unaccounted for dollars your fave president, Biden, sent to your fave dictator, Zelensky.
And I hope DOGE names names.
Posted on 03/05/2025 5:19:27 AM PST by MtnClimber
As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” to help rein in federal spending, people have been encouraged to use the Treasury Department’s usaspending.gov website to identify and track government finance.
But usaspending.gov is wrong on the biggest picture, RealClearInvestigations found.
The total amount of spending across “all agencies,” as recorded at usaspending.gov, appears to be 50% higher than most experts interviewed for this article think it actually was.
In Fiscal Year 2024, for instance, the website pegs total spending at $9.7 trillion, when several experts said it was probably around $6.5 trillion. No one could explain the much bigger figure. Officials with usaspending.gov conceded to RCI that their totals were wrong and said the error, which shows up in similar fashion for the last five fiscal years would be fixed soon. They offered neither an explanation for their higher total nor an estimate of what it should be. Two weeks later, the erroneous figures remain.
Budget experts say the website’s seeming multi-trillion-dollar error illustrates a core challenge Musk and his colleagues at the Department of Government Efficiency face as they try to reduce Washington’s spending. In a twist on the classic Washington line, the problem is not just following the money but finding it in the first place. The federal government has become so big and so expensive that even experts have trouble navigating the morass of contracts, awards, grants, loans, and other items that have transformed the U.S. spreadsheet into a labyrinth pitted with dead ends and rabbit holes.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
The confusion is a cover for the corruption.
Overwhelming the system.
A derivation of Cloward-Piven.
Maybe Gordian Knot is an apt descriptor…
We still need to do away with baseline budgeting...
This is part of the reason that for years the budget was based on continuing resolutions, or on the prior year’s budget plus some inflation percentage.
No one wanted to really look, except for political jabs at the other party’s boondoggles.
I once worked at a very large oil and gas company. For a time I did a stint in business development where I learned a lot of the ins and outs of book keeping and finance. All of the legal book keeping techniques led me one day to remark to our controller that we would be broke two years before we or anyone else found out. The government is the same or worse.
The root of almost all of our budget and growth problems is the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. I have not yet heard Musk or anyone else say that or call for it to be ended. Within that act are all the insane provisions of budget management and automatic spending increases of about 7% or more per year.
I wish you were a part of DOGE.
I saw the early impact of CBA ‘74 in the Corps of Engineers. All money had to be spent every year or the funding would be reduced the next year. Next year there may be a flood or damage to equipment and no money to fund repairs. If the money was all spent you got more money the next year even if you didn’t need it. There was a never ending cycle of feast and famine and creative means trying to be useful and not waste money to spend “excess” funds.
The AF does this. They fly a lot at the end of the FY to burn up money so their budget will not be cut. They buy new furniture or art work for the halls while putting the old stuff in storage or surplus for sale at dirt cheap prices. Meanwhile, airplanes are grounded for lack of maintenance budget because there is not enough in that category and they can’t practically get more.
The CBA ‘74 is made for waste and inefficiency. No business could run this way. Everybody that cares knows CBA is a disaster and some have tried to change it for ages but only a willing Congress, Senate and President can do it. We have not even had a budget in 26 years so how can we possibly change budget law so many like for the slush it creates?
I have written on this subject extensively and many times in these pages. Nobody seems to be interested in the subject. It is exceedingly complicated though and attention spans are mostly limited to sound bytes.
Part of DOGE? I just would not fit in for starters, I have been to DC and am too plodding and methodical, and for seconds there is too little left of my life for such frustration. I’ve had enough thankless jobs for one lifetime. I am grateful Trump can and will do the job but I would not want it even if offered.
Need to do it YESTERDAY! Repeal the CBA should be a rally cry like “remember the Alamo!”.
Thank you for this post
“The root of almost all of our budget and growth problems is the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. I have not yet heard Musk or anyone else say that or call for it to be ended. Within that act are all the insane provisions of budget management and automatic spending increases of about 7% or more per year.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4302197/posts?page=9#9
Thank you for your comment. Appreciate your insight.
The best I have here is a wistful sigh. Plodding and methodical is just what we need but I certainly understand your point/position. Thank you for your thoughtful reply...although, my opinion didn’t change :) We sure could use you.
1. DOGE Live Tracker
Following the money:
https://dogegov.com/dogeclock
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2. Estimated Savings
$105B- Combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and re-negotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.
Amount Saved Per Taxpayer
$652.17- Per taxpayer amount is calculated using an estimate of 161 million individual federal taxpayers.
https://doge.gov/savings
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3. Agency Efficiency Leaderboard - Most/Least Savings
[Tracking progress across federal agencies]
We are working to upload all of our receipts in a digestible and transparent manner consistent with applicable rules and regulations. To get started, listed below are a subset of contract, grant, and lease cancellations, representing ~30% of total savings.
The contracts listed below (URL) have been posted publicly on fpds.gov. FPDS posting of the contract termination notices can have up to a 1 month lag. There may be discrepancies between FPDS and the posted numbers, the latter of which originate directly from agency contracting officials.
Last updated March 5th, 2025. This will initially be updated weekly; over time, the website will improve and the updates will converge to real-time.
"REVEREND"-mommy, I can't wait for DOGE to examine the $350 BILLION unaccounted for dollars your fave president, Biden, sent to your fave dictator, Zelensky.
And I hope DOGE names names.
Soooo.... this crap sammich was foisted upon US during the turmoil of Tricky Dick by the Rats and RINO’s of the time?
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