Every person who has ever been involved in bookkeeping, personal or otherwise, understands that expenses have codes or memo lines. Even in Quicken, which I use for my own checkbook, there is a place to put the purpose of the money spent. Well, evidently our government is not really into good accounting practices.

On Monday, The Gateway Pundit reported the following:

On Monday, Elon Musk’s DOGE revealed the federal government didn’t trace $4.7 trillion in payments.

$4.7 trillion dollars in payments were left blank, making it nearly impossible to trace, DOGE said.

“The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process),” DOGE explained 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. Thanks to US Treasury for the great work,” DOGE said.

The article also notes:

Last Wednesday Real America’s Voice White House reporter Brian Glenn asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the trillions in fraudulent Medicaid and Medicare payments that have been going overseas.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) held her DOGE subcommittee hearing earlier in the day and announced the group’s findings. The subcommittee has found $2.7 trillion in improper and fraudulent government payments since forming their subcommittee.

This number came from a report late last year on government waste.

I applaud DOGE for the work they are doing and hope that it will translate into government efficiency and eventually lower taxes and expenses for Americans.