Billionaire Elon Musk outlined an inventory of “super obvious” modifications that his Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) plans to make on the U.S. Treasury Division this weekend.
Musk says officers on the treasury are working to make the federal government’s books extra easy to audit, in addition to extra accountability for the place funds are going. The modifications additionally require treasury staff to extra incessantly replace the congressional “do not pay” record, which highlights fraudsters and unlawful fronts.
“Nobody in Treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years, but have been stopped by prior management,” Musk stated.
“Everything at Treasury was geared towards complain[t] minimization. People [who] receive money don’t complain, but people who don’t receive money (especially fraudsters) complain very loudly, so the fraud was allowed to continue,” he added.
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“The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from DOGE,” Musk added.
“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,” he continued. “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.”
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Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE is focusing on the Treasury Division. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Photographs)
Musk’s tirade towards the treasury division comes simply after a federal decide blocked DOGE’s means to entry treasury division programs. The Tesla CEO condemned the ruling as “insane” this weekend.
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The Friday lawsuit, which was filed by 19 Democratic attorneys basic, claimed Musk’s staff violated the legislation by being given “full access” to the Treasury’s cost programs. The programs embody details about People’ Social Safety, Medicare and veterans’ advantages, tax refund data and extra.
The lawsuit was filed in New York by the workplace of New York Legal professional Normal Letitia James, who wrote that President Donald Trump “does not have the power to give away Americans’ private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress.”
A federal decide intervened to dam DOGE from accessing treasury division programs. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP through Getty Photographs)
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has expressed help for Musk and DOGE previously, lately saying that the U.S. “doesn’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.”
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“At the Treasury, our payment system is not being touched,” Bessent stated in a “Kudlow” interview on Wednesday. “We process 1.3 billion payments a year. There is a study being done — can we have more accountability, more accuracy, more traceability that the money is going where it is?”
