Jeffrey A Tucker
@jeffreytucker · Feb 17, 2025
To be clear, the government was spending $4.7T without any documentary requirement that it was connected to an approved budget item.
I'm trying to wrap my brain around this. It suggests that Congressional budgets, signed by the president, were a kind of fiction or a wish list
Department of Government Efficiency@DOGE· Feb 17, 2025The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Yup, totally insane
12:29 AM · February 18, 2025 · 119.6K views
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