Doge finds a budget line line almost impossible to track responsible for $ 4.7T in payments

He Trump administration The government efficiency department (Doge) discovered an identification code that links the US Treasury payments with a budget line line, which represents almost $ 4.7 billion in payments that were often blank.

“The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code that links a Treasury payment to a budget line (standard financial process),” Dege wrote in a publication about X. “In the federal government, the TAS field It was optional for ~ $ 4.7 billion in payments, it was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible.

The agency thanked the United States treasure for their work by identifying the optional field.

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According to the Fiscal Service Office, which is under the Treasury, the tas codes are used to describe any of the identification codes of the account assigned by the Treasury and is also known as the “account”.

All financial transactions made by the federal government are classified by TA when the Treasury and Budget Office (WBO) are reported.

The discovery was announced on the same day Doge seemed to have populated the Doge.gov savings page, which, from Monday night, said that the total estimated savings from the establishment of the department total around $ 55 billion.

Dege puts Dei in a cutting block with the completion of more than $ 370 million in subsidies from the Department of Education

Savings are a combination of “fraud detection/elimination, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, assets sales, subsidy cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes and regulatory savings.”

“We are working to load all these data in a digestible and totally transparent way with clear cases, according to the applicable rules and regulations,” Dege wrote on the site, adding that the data will be updated twice a week until finally performed. time.

Musk is leading to aggressively reducing government waste when it comes to Federal Expenditure Under President Donald Trump.

Doge cuts more than $ 100 million in Dei funds in the Department of Education: ‘Wins for each student’

The department was created by executive order and is a temporary organization within the White House that will spend 18 months carrying out its mission.

The group has faced criticism about their access to federal systems, including the payment system of the Treasury Department, as well as the movements to cancel federal contracts and make cuts in several agencies.

The general prosecutors of 14 states are demanding to prevent Doge from accessing federal data, arguing that MUSK and the Trump administration have dedicated themselves to illegal executive overreach.

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The newly formed cost reduction agency won a victory on Friday when a federal judge in Washington rejected a request To temporarily block confidential data from the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Office of Financial Protection of the Consumer.

Hillary Vaugh and Stephen Soreace of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.