Elon Musk, head of the Department Of Government Efficiency, has recently shared what he describes as “super obvious” improvements for the Treasury Department. In a series of posts on X, Musk detailed the changes that the Dogecoin Foundation has agreed upon following his suggestions.
“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 said.
Among the changes outlined by Musk include:
- 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.
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…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025
His common sense recommendations should be universally lauded, but Democrats who prefer ambiguity and smokescreens to protect their corruption are all up in arms. 19 state attorney general filed a lawsuit Friday to limit DOGE’s access to Treasury Department systems and a federal judge obliged them
According to Fox News:
The lawsuit was filed in New York by the office of New York Attorney General 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.”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has expressed support for Musk and DOGE in the past, recently saying that the U.S. “doesn’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.”
“At the Treasury, our payment system is not being touched,” Bessent said 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?”
Democrats continue to paint Musk as a billionaire tyrant in order to brainwash leftists into opposing his push for government transparency. They want the people focused on his wealth and success and to somehow see these traits as detrimental while declaring transparency as something they shouldn’t want from government.
It’s Gaslighting 101.
