DOGE says it found nearly untraceable budget line item responsible for $4.7T in payments
The Treasury Access Symbols, when left blank, made it nearly impossible to trace the payments
By Greg Wehner Fox News
Published February 17, 2025 7:14pm EST
The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered an identification code linking U.S. Treasury payments to a budget line item, which accounts for nearly $4.7 trillion in payments which was oftentimes left blank.
"The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process)," DOGE wrote in a post on X. "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."
The agency thanked the U.S. Treasury for their work in identifying the optional field.
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