From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.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: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:38:04 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2/23/25 15:08, Alan wrote:
> On 2025-02-23 11:26, Mercy-a-lago wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:36:20 -0500
>> Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:17:52 -0700, Mercy-a-lago <run@no.spam> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> "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
>>>
>>> To repeat:Â Over what time period?
>>>> "$4.7 trillion in payments from the Treasury Department
>> were missing a critical tracking code, which made tracing the
>> transactions âalmost impossible.â
>
> If all the data was "impossible" to track, where did the dollar figure
> come from?
>
> The fact is that those records were ONLY lacking a TAS.
I've not bothered to track this claim, but it certainly seems like
someone trying to complain about a database that had new data fields
added to it over time, and legacy data didn't have those fields
retroactively populated, because there was minimal value to do so.
-hh