Enough good things cannot be said about the Department of Government Efficiency.
Whether it’s the @DOGE feed on X or the new DOGE website, it’s like a fountain of government cost-cutting, waste-fixing, and fraud-finding to drink from on a near-hourly basis.
Each day, voters are being given new details and facts about the wholly inefficient ways the federal government has been operating. Like this gem, for example. When the United States Treasury makes a payment of some kind, there are codes to track the reason for the expenditure. This field, up until now, was optional meaning payments never had to be fully accounted for. As a result, trillions (yes, TRILLIONS, with a T) of dollars have gone unaccounted for and cannot be easily tracked back to a relevant appropriation of funds:
The 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…
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025
The full post reads as follows:
The 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 impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.
Where are the tears from Sen. Chuck Schumer for trillions of dollars being spent without proper accounting? It’s asinine that Democrats haven’t yet gotten on board with the objective mission even if they can’t get over their Trump derangement.
The lies being spewed about Elon Musk stealing classified data from Grandma’s Social Security fall flat from a party that defended Hillary Clinton keeping her private email server in a downtown Denver apartment bathroom closet. It’s truly absurd the level to which Democrats are throwing themselves under the bus to fight efforts at streamlining government.
Then there’s this. The number of people listed in the Social Security database that are very clearly dead but still marked as very much a part of the living.
Why are Democrats concerned with fixing issues like this?
Looking into this https://t.co/5NnCgin5Li
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025
Note that Elon’s original tweet is not saying that all these clearly deceased-yet-not-recorded-properly-entries are getting social security checks, but some probably are. The point is that these are not difficult problems to find and they’re not impossible problems to fix.
What’s been missing from the federal government is any sense of desire to actually find and correct errors. Once proper accounting and basic recordkeeping guidelines are established, much of the fraud and abuse will be far easier to spot.
Few political appointees, from either party, unfortunately, have had the technical understanding to fully grasp how and why these problems perpetuate. They do not have the necessary grasp of technology and information systems the way software developers and tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk do. Most bureaucrats are riding blind and only privy to whatever the IT department tells them since they don’t know where to look or even what questions to ask.
Even so, Democrats are bent on fighting DOGE at every opportunity. It’s a bad look for the Dems who once espoused to be the party of technology and science. The Democratic Party appreciates neither of those subjects when they claim men can give birth and the federal government needs no help in the IT department. This push comes despite well-documented problems like the fact that air traffic control has operational legacy code written in the COBOL language, something that fewer and fewer developers can even maintain any longer.
By and large, voters are thrilled with Elon Musk and the DOGE team finding billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency. Democrats act as if finding millions of dollars to cut is meaningless because it’s insignificant when compared to a federal budget of trillions. Tell that the average family trying to pay a mortgage and buy groceries each month. They’d like their wasted tax dollars back, thanks!
Donald Trump campaigned on taking a sledgehammer to government waste, fraud, and abuse. By appointing Elon Musk as the task manager, it’s finally getting done.
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