Posted on 02/11/2025 5:43:00 AM PST by dennisw
"Everything at Treasury was geared towards complaint minimization," Musk revealed after meeting with officials. Not accuracy. Not accountability. Not protecting taxpayer dollars. Just keeping the machine quiet.
This wasn't incompetence. This was design. Previous management had built a perfect system: Let the fraudsters complain. Let them threaten. Let them pressure. Easier to process bad payments than face their wrath.
When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury's payment system, they uncovered more than missing data. They found a mechanism. Simple things were left blank: Payment categories Payment rationales Basic audit controls The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week. Here's what Treasury didn't want exposed: Over $100 billion flowing annually to accounts without Social Security numbers. No temporary ID numbers. No verification. Nothing. When Musk asked Treasury officials how much was "unequivocal and obvious fraud," the answer revealed decades of corruption: Half.
Let that sink in. $50 billion per year. A billion dollars every week disappearing into accounts that shouldn't exist. The kind of fraud that would shut down any bank in America. The kind that would land any business owner in federal prison. But Treasury had perfected its system: Process payments Ignore controls Keep the machine running
Late last week, something shifted. A judge's order appeared, ex parte—meaning only one side could speak. No warning. No defense allowed. Just a wall erected between Treasury officials and their own department's data.
The system's response was swift. Coordinated. Precise. Nineteen Democratic state attorneys general filed suit. Not about the fraud. Not about the waste. Not about billions vanishing into accounts without SSNs. But about "protecting" the Treasury Department from its own Secretary. A judge in New York responded with something unprecedented: an ex parte order blocking Treasury officials from accessing their own department's data. No warning. No chance to respond. No opportunity to present evidence. Just a wall between the people elected to fix the system and the system itself.
Think about what that means: The Secretary of the Treasury—effectively the CFO of the United States government—legally barred from seeing how money moves through his own department. The people's appointee blocked from viewing the people's accounts. Young coders mapping the missing controls ordered to stop looking.
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“ Everything at Treasury was geared towards complaint minimization,” Musk revealed after meeting with officials. Not accuracy. Not accountability. Not protecting taxpayer dollars. Just keeping the machine quiet.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far away I worked for a while as a federal employee in systems development. Progress and improvement were glacially slow. I quickly learned that, above all, “not making waves” was the prime directive. It was not my cup of tea so I moved on.
A NY judge blocked errant Treasury officials from accessing their own dept’s data.......
via a wall setup between the people elected to fix the system and the system itself.
That means: The Secy of the Treasury—the CFO of the US govt—is legally barred
<><>from seeing how money moves through his own dept.
<><>blocked from viewing the people’s accounts.
<><>coders mapping the “missing controls” ordered to stop looking.
Imagine if the CFO of a bank couldn’t access, let alone audit their own finances.
Trump needs to have a press conference about this and fast. I had a discussion with a friend about the fraud and she knew nothing about what is being uncovered. Trump needs to speak about what is going on and what is being found.
Yes ongoing updates, perhaps bimonthly press conferences with DOGE.
As much as it pains me, the machine is scared - and when leviathans get scared, the shooting starts.
Now is the time for the SC to become a hero and shut down these rent-a-court rulings, and allow the peoples business to occur.
Probably won’t stop the violence that will come, but perhaps it will allow the country to not give that violence any credence. Rough times for the US - long delayed and much needed however.
Eko has a substack — https://eko.substack.com/p/the-machine-fights-back
Little easirt to read than an X thread
Great post and ping. I saw this earlier on my X feed and forwarded it to 3-4 people.
Bump
“Yes ongoing updates, perhaps bimonthly press conferences with DOGE.”
Get some of the DOGE boys out there at the press conferences. And get some fashion plate DOGE girls for great PR. America over worships youth. So present the computer whizzes DOGE boys and girls out, for the voters to see on their 65” TVs.
This will counteract the Dems/Media sliming DOGE. That they do every day.
Meet Nigerian Prince Ifeanyi Ossai Nwabuonwu Idriss.
Last year, his company, located in his Texas home, received
$1.4M tax dollars from FEMA for bottled water for illegals in NYC.
Worst thing is that NO REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS 9R EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS !
Yeah he/she has that Substack. I really love the artwork that he attaches. It helps the writing by breaking it up, for better absorption.
With a name like Eko... is it she? I think so. Or maybe an on the spectrum young guy.
That image is missing pitchforks and other sharpened farming implements.
Just learned something about Datarepublican. She's deaf and nonverbal.
it must go viral
The phrase that changed the world.
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