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Title: About that $100 Billion a year in dodgy payments.
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URL Source: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888314848477376744
Published: Feb 8, 2025
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2025-02-08 17:12:16 by Horse
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Elon Musk @elonmusk 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. Victor Bigham 🇺🇸 @Ravious101 Southwest Key, got a $790,000,000 government grant in 2022, despite records of financial scandals and misuse of federal funds. Starting in 2021, Biden appropriated $1,600,000,000 in FEMA funds to go toward immigrant care expenses. This paid for, among other things, booking 14,000 hotel rooms over the past two years for illegal immigrants in NYC. Also in 2021, Biden moved $2,000,000,000 from HHS to help pay for the illegal immigrant crisis. $850,000,000 of that was money that Congress had intended to rebuild the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile of emergency medical supplies that got depleted during the pandemic.
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