DOGE finds $4.7TRILL in Untraceable Government Spending plus Trump Unleashes CIA on Cartels
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🗓️ 22 February 2025
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Summary
1. Untraceable Government Spending
- The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered $4.7 trillion in Treasury Department payments that are almost impossible to trace due to the lack of an identification code linking payments to budget line items.
- The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is now required to increase transparency and traceability of payments.
- The discovery was made during a DOGE audit aimed at identifying and cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending.
- There was significant opposition from Democrats and some state attorneys general, who argued that DOGE should not have access to sensitive taxpayer data.
2. CIA Operations Against Mexican Cartels
- President Trump directed the CIA to use surveillance drones to gather intelligence on Mexican drug cartels, specifically targeting fentanyl labs.
- The drones, currently unarmed, are part of an effort to gather intelligence and potentially lay the groundwork for future strikes against the cartels.
- The CIA's increased drone activity began during the Biden administration but was intensified under Trump's directive.
- There is a debate about whether the Mexican government will act on the intelligence provided by the CIA, given the cartels' influence over the government.
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| 0:00.0 | Doge has now discovered 4.7 trillion of Treasury Department payments that are, quote, |
| 0:11.8 | almost impossible to be traced. You've got to ask yourself the question, why? Why would the |
| 0:20.7 | Treasury Department send $4.7 trillion of payments without an identification code |
| 0:26.7 | that links a Treasury payment to a budget line item? |
| 0:31.9 | That is what Doge has announced making the payments, quote, impossible, almost impossible to trace. |
| 0:39.1 | Doge said the identification payment code called TAS for Treasury Access Symbol is now required, |
| 0:48.9 | as of Saturday, to increase the insight into where money is actually going, |
| 0:53.8 | because, well, we don't know where |
| 0:55.7 | $4.7 trillion of your tax dollars actually went. The Treasury access symbol, TAS, is an identification |
| 1:03.7 | code linking Treasury payments to a budget line item. This is in parentheses, Doge said, |
| 1:09.5 | standard financial process. And the federal government, |
| 1:13.5 | the TAS field was optional for $4.7 trillion, not billion, not million, $4.7 trillion in payments, |
| 1:22.0 | and was often left blank making traceability, as they described it, almost impossible. |
| 1:30.9 | Think about that. |
| 1:32.9 | Like, why would you not want to trace 4.7 trillion in payments? |
| 1:39.4 | Because you don't want the people to see what's happening. |
| 1:43.5 | That's the only reason why you do this. |
| 1:45.0 | This isn't some random accident of like $4.7 trillion disappearing. |
| 1:51.0 | This is a deliberate abuse of $4.7 trillion in payments so that you couldn't ask questions about it. |
| 1:58.7 | Now, Fox News also reported on the TAS or TAS payment code system saying, |
| 2:04.6 | quote, according to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which is under the Treasury, TAS codes are used to |
| 2:12.1 | describe any one of the account identification codes assigned by the Treasury and is also referred to as the |
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