No wonder no one can bring spending under control.
They had cases where people literally went into their offices , closed the door and did nothing at all for years on end.
The only reason they were discovered was because the Cold War ended.
What if there was a rule that for every dollar an agency spent that was lost, misdirected, spent secretly without knowledge or agreement with the taxpayer ---
--- For every dollar stolen, a dollar was taken from the agency's budget?
What? $100M unaccounted for? That means you get $100M less money next year...
I know it ain't that easy, but you get the idea.
I assumed there was one or more back channel finance shenanigans in place besides USAID. Seems obvious since democrats were screaming and attacking DOGE and the dismantling of USAID. They protested too much as their latest distraction technique.
What I want to know that is missing from the article is, who are these “proponents of SFFAS?”
And as usual Congress does nothing
No wonder DOGE can’t get to finding $1 TRILLION+ in waste, fraud and abuse...
It’s not secret any longer apparently.
The fools really think they can hide stuff from Elon’s tech geniuses?
How about setting up select committees in Congress that are told the whole unvarnished truth? Then they can figure out if national security would truly be threatened or compromised by releasing the financial information. Congress is not the most trustworthy organization, but at least there would be SOME outside eyeballs on the expenditures.
I wonder how much money is surreptitiously spent this way. Billions? Hundreds of billions? More?
It starts with the intentional increase in size and increase in complexity of federal agencies, into which has been added both Congressional and Executive decisions as to what constitutes an expenditure a “national security” related, and with very opague detail of that from Congress and intentional obscurity given it by the Executive branch.
In pretending that so much Is “national security” related, they are pretending it is all protecting the people by keeping the information out of foreign exposure, when in fact it is also to keep the American people in the dark for the purpose of protecting federal agencies against the public protest of their activtities.
Greg Hunter at USAWatchdog.com has ben covering SFFAS 56 from the beginning.
God Bless Elon Musk and his brave teams... may God watch over them, protect them, and give them the thanks of the people ...
Some agencies even hide their employee paychecks under other civilian department agencies.
Under SFFAS 56, agencies may alter financial reports by removing, aggregating, or fabricating information, provided these adjustments do not “materially” affect the reported net results.
Biden had a double meaning WHERE’S THE MONEY?
SFFAS 56 opens the doors to many things good and bad now what?.