{"id":59285,"date":"2025-05-01T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59285"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:18:26","slug":"efficiency-makes-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59285","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Makes A Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2025\/04\/29\/treasury-dept-rejects-over-300-million-in-improper-payment-requests-using-new-verification-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Greatness<\/a> posted an article about a new automated payment verification system spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The U.S. Department of the Treasury has blocked its first improper payment requests using a new automated payment verification system spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>DOGE <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\/status\/1917223651625099407\">announced<\/a> Tuesday that Treasury identified and rejected $334 million in improper payment requests due to missing budget codes, invalid budget codes, and budget codes with no authorization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Invalid budget codes include budgets that had already been fully spent. Unauthorized codes refer to payments not linked to the budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Prior to DOGE\u2019s intervention, the Treasury\u2019s accounting code was optional for the $4.7 Trillion in payments that go out each year, making traceability almost impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The kind of bookkeeping in place before DOGE intervened would never be acceptable in a private company. The Internal Revenue Service would never tolerate that kind of sloppiness in a private enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThis is a big deal,\u201d DOGE Chief Elon Musk commented <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1917225430702240067\">on X.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\/status\/1891614960452522187\">Back in February,<\/a> the Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) became a required field, increasing transparency into where U.S. tax dollars are going.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Treasury went live with its new payment verification system last week, resulting in the rejection of over $300 million in fraudulent accounting entries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers should rejoice in this change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, American Greatness posted an article about a new automated payment verification system spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 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