DOGE finds $4.7 trillion in Treasury payments on untraceable budget line — and no one knows where the money went

Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency discovered $4.7 trillion in United States Treasury payments on an untraceable budget line.

The agency announced Monday that the Treasury Access Symbol, which are used to describe the account the money is linked to, was missing on a number of payments the Treasury Department has made.

‘In the federal government, the TAS field was optional for about $4.7 trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible,’ DOGE posted on X.

‘As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going.’

The account went on to thank the US Treasury for its help in identifying the optional field.

The Treasury Department, which fields trillions of dollars worth of government payments every year was one of the first departments DOGE staffers gained access to. 

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