{"id":12582,"date":"2025-02-10T08:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/elon-musk-outlines-super-obvious-changes-doge-and-treasury-have-agreed-to-make\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:15:42","slug":"elon-musk-outlines-super-obvious-changes-doge-and-treasury-have-agreed-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/elon-musk-outlines-super-obvious-changes-doge-and-treasury-have-agreed-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk outlines \u2018super obvious\u2019 changes DOGE and Treasury have agreed to make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Billionaire Elon Musk outlined a list of &#8216;super obvious&#8217; changes that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to make at the U.S. Treasury Department this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Musk says officials at the treasury are working to make the government&#8217;s books more simple to audit, as well as more accountability for where funds are going. The changes also require treasury employees to more frequently update the congressional &#8216;do not pay&#8217; list, which highlights fraudsters and illegal fronts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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,&#8217; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everything at Treasury was geared towards complain[t] minimization. People [who] receive money don\u2019t complain, but people who don\u2019t receive money (especially fraudsters) complain very loudly, so the fraud was allowed to continue,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from DOGE,&#8217; Musk added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is ridiculous that these changes didn\u2019t 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,&#8217; he continued. &#8216;If accurate, this is extremely suspicious. When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B\/year or $1B\/week!! This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s tirade toward the treasury department comes just after a federal judge blocked DOGE&#8217;s ability to access treasury department systems. The Tesla CEO condemned the ruling as &#8216;insane&#8217; this weekend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Friday lawsuit, which was filed by 19 Democratic attorneys general, claimed Musk\u2019s team violated the law by being given &#8216;full access&#8217; to the Treasury\u2019s payment systems. The systems include information about Americans\u2019 <u>Social Security,<\/u> Medicare and veterans\u2019 benefits, tax refund information and more.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed in New York by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who wrote that President <u>Donald Trump<\/u> &#8216;does not have the power to give away Americans\u2019 private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has expressed support for Musk and DOGE in the past, recently saying that the U.S. &#8216;doesn&#8217;t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At the Treasury, our payment system is not being touched,&#8217; Bessent said in a &#8216;Kudlow&#8217; interview on Wednesday. &#8216;We process 1.3 billion payments a year. There is a study being done \u2014 can we have more accountability, more accuracy, more traceability that the money is going where it is?&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk outlined a list of &#8216;super obvious&#8217; changes that his Department of Government Efficiency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}