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 15:17:52 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:38:02 -0800
Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-02-22 13:03, pothead wrote:
> > On 2025-02-22, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote: =20
> >> 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
> >>>>>> enemies. He lies and declares waste which you cretins =20
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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."
> >>>>> =20
> >>>>
> >>>> "$4.7 Trillion" so scary.
> >>>>
> >>>> My question:
> >>>>
> >>>> Over what period of time? =20
> >>>
> >>> 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 =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
> As to their PURPOSE, perhaps (assuming we're getting all the facts.
>=20
> But obviously, there is an amount being claimed for each of the
> records found.
>=20
> And those records almost certainly have dates, so I ask again:
>=20
> Over what time period?
Do you ever relent to reality?
"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