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‘Blank Cheque’: DOGE uncovers $4.7 trillion in ‘almost untraceable’ US government payments

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A recent discovery by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has exposed a nearly untraceable budget line item responsible for $4.7 trillion in federal payments.

Under the Trump administration, DOGE identified that the Treasury Access Symbol (TAS), a critical identification code linking Treasury payments to specific budget line items, was often left blank, making it virtually impossible to track where the funds were allocated.

DOGE announced on social media that, as of Saturday, filling in the TAS field is now mandatory, a move expected to increase transparency and accountability in federal spending. The agency credited the U.S. Treasury for assisting in identifying the issue, which has persisted due to an optional reporting structure. TAS codes classify all federal financial transactions when reporting to the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), meaning their absence had allowed trillions in payments to go largely unmonitored.

The revelation coincided with an update to DOGE’s Savings Page, which reported an estimated $55 billion in cost reductions since the agency’s formation. These savings stem from efforts to eliminate fraud, renegotiate contracts, cancel unnecessary leases, and streamline government programs. DOGE plans to release detailed spending data twice per week, eventually transitioning to real-time financial tracking.

Established by executive order, DOGE is a temporary cost-cutting agency within the White House, tasked with eliminating government waste over an 18-month period. The initiative, spearheaded by Elon Musk, has drawn criticism from legal and political opponents, particularly over its access to federal payment systems and its authority to cancel contracts. Attorneys general from 14 states have filed lawsuits alleging executive overreach, arguing that DOGE’s unrestricted access to federal data “violates legal boundaries”.

Despite these legal battles, the agency secured a key victory when a federal judge declined to block its access to sensitive data from the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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  1. Arrest the one(s) under whom responsability the payments were done. He/she knows.
    Simple solution. And deny liberty untill the truth is said

  2. “NEVER FORGET. September 10 2001. Donald Rumsfeld holds a press conference to state that the Pentagon was missing more than $2,300,000,000,000 but the next day something happened and everybody forgot?”

    • 3000 murdered with that inside job to hide 2.3 trillion.
      Great that such sacrifice, in todays debt/theft spiral, is not needed anymore.

  3. I thought that every financial transaction is traceable because such traceability is required under Anti Money Laundering laws. All that this article appears to say is that critical identification codes to link individual payments to specific budget line items were not used. So that makes transactions a wee bit harder to trace, but they are still traceable. It just means whomever authorized the specific budget line items might not be immediately identified, but they can still be found.

  4. The IRS NEVER investigates other governmental departments…this is why DOGE was needed, among other criminal fraudulent activities within the U.S., Israeli and European Nations!
    However, the IRS will audit those who are on a low income and cannot afford lawyers to defend themselves.
    How many non-violent Americans are in prison for making a simple mistake on the hundreds of IRS tax forms which are confusing?
    Or- their tax preppers made mistakes?
    I know a number of people who fell on unemployment and went past their 99 weeks, and then had nothing.
    The IRS audited them for 3 years straight when they had no income past 99 weeks. Legally speaking, this was and is illegal on the part of the IRS.
    Compare Philadelphia’s Kensington Avenue to Tel-Aviv’s oceanfront street scape in the trailer below…
    https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDkQNeEzxV?lang=en&mx=2
    AND- here’s the movie ‘Occupied’…
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZYq0WPAS7s5V/
    Unfortunately, it’s going to take a GLOBAL Civil War to route these bastards out of the spheres of Western Societies…!

    Dear President Trump & Elon Musk-
    Please abolish the IRS and go to a flat tax of 5% on everything. Cleans up the due processes, eliminates the IRS and creates a simplified tax system of 5% that can be handled by a simple department used to collect and disburse 5% tax monies.

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