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 13:38:02 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-02-22 13:03, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-02-22, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-02-22 12:38, Mercy-a-lago wrote:
>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> What part of _almost impossible tracing_ got past you?
>>>
>>> https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/us-news/doge-discovers-4-7-trillion-in-
>>> treasury-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 critical tracking code, which made tracing the
>>> transactions âalmost impossible.â
>> What part of "over what period of time" confused you?
>>
>> There are obviously individual records of expenditures.
>>
>> Those records allegedly lack a particular code.
>>
>> Does that mean they aren't dated?
>
> It means they are difficult if not impossible to track/trace.
As to their PURPOSE, perhaps (assuming we're getting all the facts.
But obviously, there is an amount being claimed for each of the records
found.
And those records almost certainly have dates, so I ask again:
Over what time period?