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 15:10:21 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:03:21 -0000 (UTC)
pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
> On 2025-02-22, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> > On 2025-02-22 12:38, Mercy-a-lago wrote: =20
> >> On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:32:00 -0800 Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> >> =20
> >>> On 2025-02-22 09:15, tye syding wrote: =20
> >>>> 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=20
> >>>>> 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=20
> >>>> $4.7T in payments Earlier this week, DOGE announced it had=20
> >>>> 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=20
> >>>> 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=20
> >>>> 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
> >>>=20
> >>> "$4.7 Trillion" so scary.
> >>>=20
> >>> My question:
> >>>=20
> >>> Over what period of time? =20
> >>=20
> >> What part of _almost impossible tracing_ got past you?
> >>=20
> >> https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/us-news/doge-discovers-4-7-trillion-in-
> >> treasury-payments-were-missing-critical-code/
> >>=20
> >> 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 =E2=80=9Calmost impossible.=E2=80=9D =20
> > 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? =20
>=20
> It means they are difficult if not impossible to track/trace.
>=20
Bunny is having issues with reality again...