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The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

Not even once. - Elon Musk, head of Doge

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1885582076247712229

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The highest ranking Treasury official, David A Lebryk, is resigning rather than complying with a request by @DOGE for access to audit where they’ve spent trillions of dollars a year. Why would career bureaucrats fear an audit by @elonmusk and @doge to see where we can save money?
- Robby Starbuck https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1885466800957116487

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

What is this dude's net worth? What was it before he got the job?

You seem to be making an accusations without actually making it or providing any evidence. Aside from admitting what you would do in that position.

A legitimate audit ordered by the president or the Congress probably wouldn't have been questioned by anyone at the agency, but Musk's place in the federal government was questionable. Actually, I've just heard today for the first time that Trump has him as a temporary employee now. For 120 days, I think.

Can Musk even get the proper security clearance for Access to do such an audit? I think with so much of what's going on, people may have an issue with vital information being in the hands it Musk, or any private citizen that wields such power.

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

It's supposed to be the FBI I think. I remember something about Jared having issues with getting his the last go-round.

I don't even understand how the hell a convicted felon such as Trump could get security clearance.

But knowing who is supposed to issue the security clearance does not say anything about whether or not Elon actually has one.

I do think any federal agency that won't agree to and pass an audit should have much more oversight though.

Naturally, The Pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. That covers the Trump and Biden years.

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

JD should get a dictionary, because he's not using the word properly at all, in it's original or modern meaning.

And it doesn't matter who gives the security clearances. Does Elon actually have one or not? If so, then all is well and I can't stfu
.if not, then I probably need to call LifeLock.

Oh
He probably does have a clearance by now
LifeLock still sounds like a good idea though.

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

You already have a thread for your howling about the BBC.

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Until DOGE audits the DOD and cuts waste there, nothing they could find gets them anywhere near the $2 Billion Elon and Trump have promised. Worse, Trump's projected spending would eat anything saved anyway.

Military spending doesn't have to be cut, but every dollar spent should be accounted for and used properly. Not wasted.

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

It occurs to me that DOGE has plenty of programmers, but I haven't heard of any accountants yet. Seems like those would be necessary for such an endeavor.

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The reason the radical Dems don’t want an audit of social security fraud is because they’re the ones getting it …

Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!

Your tax dollars are being stolen.

To be clear, what the @DOGE
team and @USTreasury
have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.

- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!

- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.

The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE
. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!

Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.

When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!

This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.