Posted on 02/01/2025 2:01:23 PM PST by SoConPubbie
David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave his post where he has been a top official for years.
Elon Musk and the DOGE team are currently examining the treasury payment systems.
Lebryk clashed with Musk over access to a “sensitive system” used to pay over $6 trillion a year in Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The results of the audit may not bode well for David Lebryk.
According to Elon Musk, the payment approval officers were told to ALWAYS approve payments, even to fraudulent groups or terrorist organizations!
“The DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once,” Musk wrote.
The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.
They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.
Not even once. https://t.co/kInoGWdw4C
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2025
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene weighed in on this bombshell revelation.
“What is the point in even having payment officers at the Treasury if they were directed to literally pay anyone and everyone no matter what?! Even terrorists! The outright rot that is being uncovered and ripped out of our government right now is shocking. Thank God!”
What is the point in even having payment officers at the Treasury if they were directed to literally pay anyone and everyone no matter what?!
Even terrorists!
The outright rot that is being uncovered and ripped out of our government right now is shocking.
Thank God! https://t.co/CK6JVU4oI2
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) February 1, 2025
Lebryk reportedly stepped down following a clash with Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
The news outlet reported:
The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department left the agency after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks.
David A. Lebryk, who served in nonpolitical roles at Treasury for several decades, announced his retirement Friday in an email to colleagues that was obtained by The Washington Post. President Donald Trump named Lebryk acting secretary upon taking office last week. Lebryk had a dispute with Musk’s surrogates over access to the payment system the U.S. government uses to disburse trillions of dollars every year, the people said. The exact nature of the disagreement was not immediately clear, they said.
Officials affiliated with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” have been asking since after the election for access to the system, the people said — requests that were reiterated more recently, including after Trump’s inauguration. Tom Krause, a Silicon Valley executive who has now been detailed to Treasury, is among those involved, the people said. Krause did not respond to requests for comment.
This comes after Scott Bessent was sworn in to serve as Trump’s Treasury secretary.
Meanwhile, Musk aides have locked career staff out of computer systems at the US government personnel agency.
MUSK AIDES LOCK CAREER STAFF OUT OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AT U.S. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL AGENCY, SOURCES SAY- RTRS
Oh look, a countercoup
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 31, 2025
President Trump had four years to sit and plan this out.
To get it just right.
In that case it is irrational to complain that Social Security is going bankrupt, since the Obama/Biden regimes would be grossly irresponsible to use it as a piggy bank.
Betcha also that all of these white collar cash grabbers did not think to save up, cover up or make a plan in the event of the money coming to a sudden stop.
We are going to see a whole bunch of people in power with Sudden Shif Eye Bulge Syndrome.
“The outright rot that is being uncovered and ripped out of our government right now is shocking.” ~ MTG
Yep. And we’re only THIRTEEN DAYS IN! MAGA!
If they get rid of all the fraud, waste and ABUSE in Mother Government, America will be sitting pretty. :)
Gitmo’s gonna need a few more buildings.
“...in so many ways, money flows out of my pocket and into the pockets of people who want to kill me. Foreign and Domestic.”
(CC: I know you are one smart FReeper, so this is not directed at you - just a jumping off point.)
As the saying goes, ‘If you’re not OUTRAGED, you haven’t been paying ATTENTION!’
Since I started working for a taxable paycheck at age 15, (I’m 64, now) I have made it my Life’s Work to pay as little in taxes as legally possible.
PLEASE! I beg you ALL: STARVE THE BEAST, matter WHO is in office! Don’t be lazy about this! Your hard-earned cash has gone to SO many morally, ethically and EVIL ‘projects’ via Mother Government! Cut that bish OFF!
Reading a Tax Table is not hard; I’ve done my taxes myself my entire adult life and it is super-easy now with online help and programs; they catch everything - in YOUR favor! And I’ve been RICH and I’ve been POOR. (Rich is better.) Never an audit. If you’ve got money to burn, a good CPA is the Best Friend you will ever, EVER have!
And a REFUND at the end of the year is NOT your ‘friend.’ It just means that you’ve GIVEN Mother Government (State and Federal) your money to p*ss away without YOU earning any interest on those dollars!
*Steps Off Soapbox*
“My word... Trump is NOT WASTING TIME this time around.”
With all of these stories coming out, it is no wonder that they did not want Trump to become President. He is exposing all the corruption in our government.
“What is the point in even having payment officers at the Treasury if they were directed to literally pay anyone and everyone no matter what?! Even terrorists! The outright rot that is being uncovered and ripped out of our government right now is shocking. Thank God!”
What is the point in even having payment officers at the Treasury if they were directed to literally pay anyone and everyone no matter what?!
Even terrorists!
The outright rot that is being uncovered and ripped out of our government right now is shocking.
Thank God! https://t.co/CK6JVU4oI2
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) February 1, 2025
WHY?
Why does this stuff ALWAYS have to be posted twice?
You should write books. Nicely done.
“Audit the treasury? Can’t be done. It’s been screwed up for over a a 100 years.”
Well. If you abolish the IRS and have a flat tax, those IRS agents and accountants can comb through the Tax laws. There are only 6,700 pages.
Funding terrorist groups. The people in office cannot have betrayed us any better. They’ve gone the limit. They deserve to lose their freedom.
1-get the money back!
2- sue all who knew (personal funds)
3 -prosecute
So what terrorist groups did they send money to?
[[Top Treasury Official Announces Resignation — Comes at the Same Time Elon Musk and DOGE Team Discover Treasury Is Funding Terrorist Groups]]
Prosecute them!
(Top Treasury Official Announces Resignation — Comes at the Same Time Elon Musk and DOGE Team Discover Treasury Is Funding Terrorist Groups)
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Oh, I’m SURE Congress NEVER knew!?! /s
Including former Treasury secretaries and presidents. Biden, Obama, and Clinton don’t have immunity.
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