WATCH: GOP senators rail against staggering $4.7 trillion in untraceable Treasury payments
Politics,Treasury,US Treasury,Transparency,Congress,Scott Bessent,Banking And Finance
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Earlier this year, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uncovered $4.7 trillion in untraceable Treasury Department payments.
Prior to the discovery, Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) identification codes were optional for $4.7 trillion in Treasury Department payments, so they were often left blank and were untraceable. The field is now required to increase "insight into where the money is actually going," the Treasury Department and DOGE announced in February...
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