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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: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:28:18 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:08:56 -0800
Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> 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:
> >  =20
> >> On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:17:52 -0700, Mercy-a-lago <run@no.spam>
> >> wrote:=20
> >>> On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:38:02 -0800
> >>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> >>>    =20
> >>>> On 2025-02-22 13:03, pothead wrote: =20
> >>>>> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It means they are difficult if not impossible to track/trace. =20
> >>>> 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? =20
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>
> >> To repeat:  Over what time period? =20
> >=20
> > "$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
> >  =20
>=20
> If all the data was "impossible" to track, where did the dollar
> figure come from?

=46rom what they DID find, duh.

> The fact is that those records were ONLY lacking a TAS.

Then maybe they have more than they're telling us, ya think maybe?