From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Both Presidents Obama And Biden Said They Wanted To End Waste In
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:32:00 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-02-22 09:15, tye syding wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:02:55 -0800
> Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@www.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Musk's political hit squad. He declares as waste his political
>> enemies. He lies and declares waste which you cretins
>
> Stupid meth whore.
>
> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-takes-chainsaw-federal-spending-7-major-victories-week-got-done
>
> 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."
>
"$4.7 Trillion" so scary.
My question:
Over what period of time?