From: Mercy-a-lago <run@no.spam>
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
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:38:42 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:32:00 -0800
Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 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:
> > =20
> >> Musk's political hit squad. He declares as waste his political
> >> enemies. He lies and declares waste which you cretins =20
> >=20
> > Stupid meth whore.
> >=20
> > https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-takes-chainsaw-federal-spending-7=
-major-victories-week-got-done
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > "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.
> >=20
> > "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."
> >=20
> > The agency thanked the U.S. Treasury for its work in identifying
> > the optional field.
> >=20
> > 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."
> > =20
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> "$4.7 Trillion" so scary.
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> My question:
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> Over what period of time?
What part of _almost impossible tracing_ got past you?
https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/us-news/doge-discovers-4-7-trillion-in-treasu=
ry-payments-were-missing-critical-code/
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that some $=
4.7 trillion in payments from the Treasury Department were missing a critic=
al tracking code, which made tracing the transactions =E2=80=9Calmost impos=
sible.=E2=80=9D=20