From: tye syding <bn@wy.no>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Re: Both Presidents Obama And Biden Said They Wanted To End Waste
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:26:18 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:02:29 -0000 (UTC)
Muffy <x@y.com> wrote:
> He's uncovered $billions in waste and since he's the expert on what
> waste constitutes, we don't need any proof so it's good that Elon
> hasn't produced any.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-takes-chainsaw-federal-spending-7-major-victories-week-got-done
4. DOGE finds a nearly untraceable budget line item responsible for $4.7T in payments
Earlier this week, DOGE announced it had discovered an identification code linking U.S. Treasury payments to a budget line item, which accounts for nearly $4.7 trillion in payments, that was oftentimes left blank.
"The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process)," DOGE wrote in a post on X.
"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."
The agency thanked the U.S. Treasury for its work in identifying the optional field.
According to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which is under the Treasury, TAS codes are used to describe any one of the account identification codes assigned by the Treasury and are also referred to as the "account."
5. Caesars Palace, MLB stadium, an ice cream truck: DOGE reveals how schools spent billions in COVID relief funds
Schools spent hundreds of billions of COVID relief funds on expenses that had "little" impact on students, such as Las Vegas hotel rooms and the purchase of an ice cream truck, according to the Trump administration's cost-cutting department.