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Musk wrote on X Saturday that DOGE and the Treasury Department have agreed to take the following steps:
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It's taxpayer money. Democrats should not be fighting this.
- All outgoing payments must have a categorization code in order to be paid. That’s supposed to already happen, but Musk has found the code is often left blank, making audits nearly impossible.
- All payments must have an explanation attached — another procedure that has been routinely ignored, making it hard to determine what or who federal payments are actually for.
- Every payment must be checked against an up-to-date “Do Not Pay” list of known frauds, terrorist groups, deceased people and expenditures that do not match congressional appropriations
Incompetent or crooked? Elon Musk exposing Washington’s rotten system
Generally, when auditors find an organization’s accounting system makes errors easy to commit and difficult to spot, they assume the system is designed that way because it is intended to facilitate…
It's taxpayer money. Democrats should not be fighting this.