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At the Treasury, our payment system is not being touched,
Bessent said in a "Kudlow" interview on Wednesday Nobody in Treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years, but have been stopped by prior management,
It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already! Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number,
The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from DOGE,
Everything at Treasury was geared towards complain[t] minimization. People [who] receive money don’t complain, but people who don’t receive money (especially fraudsters) complain very loudly, so the fraud was allowed to continue,
If DOGE members have any access to payment systems, we recommend suspending that access immediately and conducting a comprehensive review of all actions they may have taken on these systems."
President Trump does not have the power to give away Americans’ private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress,
James said in a statement He's finding tremendous fraud and corruption and waste. You see it with the USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development], but you're going to see it even more so with other agencies and other parts of government."
On Friday, Trump commended Musk and his DOGE team, saying This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately,
- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily,
I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life,
These are highly trained professionals,
Bessent said in an interview with Bloomberg Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,
Elez’s account posted, ... according to the Journal I’m with the vice president,
We only need three Republicans with the courage of their convictions to join our efforts to protect the American people from this extreme and illegal overreach."
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