Posted on 02/18/2025 4:57:24 AM PST by TigerClaws
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency discovered $4.7 trillion in United States Treasury payments on an untraceable budget line.
The agency announced Monday that the Treasury Access Symbol, which are used to describe the account the money is linked to, was missing on a number of payments the Treasury Department has made.
'In the federal government, the TAS field was optional for about $4.7 trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible,' DOGE posted on X.
'As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going.'
The account went on to thank the US Treasury for its help in identifying the optional field.
The Treasury Department, which fields trillions of dollars worth of government payments every year was one of the first departments DOGE staffers gained access to.
They have been granted entry to the department's highly-sensitive payment systems, and Musk is now requesting access to a classified IRS system that contains the personal financial records of millions of Americans.
The request, which is reportedly under review, would grant DOGE sweeping access to IRS 'systems, property, and datasets' through a memorandum of understanding.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Pretty soon it's a lot of money.
all that taxpayer dough has been converted to pocket linings so let’s check some pockets, starting with our illustrious CONgresscritters. Don’t forget to check their kid’s pockets too.
I can’t find a timeline for this. Is it $4.7T over a ten year period? Twenty years?
Untraceable budget line? Sounds like fraud to me. How long before someone is held accountable and is locked up? Hope this isn’t like the Devin Nunes, Trey Gowdy and even that Comer guy where they point out all this crime and corruption but NOTHING happens. Then fast forward to the next election and Dems do prosecute Republicans. Sick of this one sided game
BTTT
Even without this TAS, the date would be an enormous help.
Here’s the original post:
Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury
for the great work.
And the link it references:
A Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) is an identification code assigned by the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the owner agency, to an individual appropriation, receipt, or other fund account. The term “Treasury Account Symbol” is a generic term used to describe any one of the account identification codes assigned by Treasury and is also referred to as the “account”. All financial transactions of the federal government are classified by TAS for reporting to Treasury and OMB. For more information on account symbols and titles, Fiscal Service issues a Treasury Financial Manual supplement titled “Federal Account Symbols and Titles Book”.
https://tfx.treasury.gov/taxonomy/term/10257
Good Lord.😠
The initiative noted that the Treasury Department must keep “a physical lockbox” to collect the more than 100 million checks it processes each year, which costs about $2.40 per check to maintain.
In fiscal year 2023, some $25 billion in tax refunds were delayed or lost due to returned or expired checks, according to DOGE.
all the information they have dug up about it should be released unredacted so the rest of us can see it
It’s probably a total accumulation and not any set time period. They probably would have said over x years if it was a set time period.
Yeah, what does that even mean.
To me, a budget means the categorical allocation and tracing metrics of ‘money’. You in your personal finances you can set a budget “line” for travel, as an example, and the idea of a budget is that you should not exceed that. The treatury has it’s own budgets like any organization.
So how can a budget line be “untraceable”? Expenditures are kept off the ledgers?
Someone, somewhere, was controlling that money.
Somewhere, there is (or was) another ledger
HOORAY Individuals at D.O.G.E.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
That’s all DOGE is doing here, really... illuminating what is going on with our money. And see how violently the demons are screaming and squirming in the sunlight!
Nice shack! Whose?
First I find it hard to believe that in the modern system huge transactions are impossible to track. Second, wherever that money was going it ought to be very obvious once it stops.
Obama’s
Who cashed the checks?
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