Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are still at it, despite unconscionable attacks by the left and even the terrorism against Tesla, one of Musk's companies.
Now DOGE has discovered something else that Elon rightly calls a "big deal."
Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to:
-Missing budget codes
-Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget)
-Budget codes with no authorization (i.e. the budget had already been fully spent)
They just prevented $334 million in improper payments. This raises big questions about what was going on before they stopped all this and found these issues. Imagine all the money flying out the door before this without the proper codes.
DOGE explained in February the problem with the Treasury system -- that the Treasury Access Symbol (TAS), an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item which they called "standard financial process," was "optional" for about $4.7 trillion in payments, and was often left blank, so that you couldn't trace the payments. DOGE stopped that so they can now trace the payments.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/04/29/doge-finds-stunning-problem-with-payment-system-n2188480