DOGE Discovers $4.7 Trillion In Treasury Payments Were Missing Critical Code: ‘Traceability almost impossible’; DOGE Staffer, 25, Poised to Gain Access to Sensitive IRS Taxpayer System as Fraud Emerges as New Musk Focus

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DOGE discovers $4.7 trillion in Treasury payments were missing critical code: ‘Traceability almost impossible’:

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that some $4.7 trillion in payments from the Treasury Department were missing a critical tracking code, which made tracing the transactions “almost impossible.”

The transactions were reportedly missing the Treasury Account Symbol (TAS), an identification code which links a Treasury payment to a budget line item, according to DOGE, which described the use of such code as a “standard financial process.”

“In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible,” read an X post from DOGE.

The Elon Musk-led project to curb waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government said that in light of the discovery, use of the TAS code is now mandatory.

“As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going,” DOGE said, thanking the Treasury Department for its “great work” implementing the change.

Musk touted the change as a “major improvement in Treasury payment integrity.”

“This was a combined effort of [DOGE, Treasury and the Federal Reserve],” Musk tweeted. “Nice work by all.” --->READ MORE HERE

DOGE staffer, 25, poised to gain access to sensitive IRS taxpayer system as fraud emerges as new Musk focus:

A 25-year-old staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is expected to imminently gain access to the IRS’s sensitive tax database as fraud becomes a major focus of the deficit-cutting initiative, The Post has confirmed.

Software engineer Gavin Kliger will gain credentials to the system that tracks tax returns and information about individuals as DOGE aggressively slashes spending across the federal bureaucracy.

“Waste, fraud, and abuse have been deeply entrenched in our broken system for far too long. It takes direct access to the system to identify and fix it,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields said in a statement first reported by CNN.

“DOGE will continue to shine a light on the fraud they uncover as the American people deserve to know what their government has been spending their hard earned tax dollars on.”

It’s unclear what exactly Kliger will be looking into by using the database — as millions of Americans prepare to submit their annual returns, due by April 15.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said Monday afternoon that part of the DOGE review would be focused on locating fraud by foreigners who file bogus returns to steal from the government.

“There’s a massive amount of fraud in this country. You have, for example, foreign fraud rings — these are foreign nationals who come into the United States — they use fake Social Security numbers, they use fake identities to steal billions in taxpayer benefits,” Miller said on Fox News.

“There’s no way to know until DOGE gains full access exactly how much money we’re talking about, but over a 10-year normal budget window, you could be talking about saving over $1 trillion by clamping down on massive fraud in our tax and entitlement systems, including, again, those carried out by organized fraud and theft rings.”

Miller added that it was “very important” to note that “DOGE are subordinate staffers of the federal government — they’re political appointees just like me.”

Meanwhile, DC US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday refused a request from 14 Democrat-led states to block DOGE staffers from accessing federal databases, saying the broad request would “essentially bring government to a halt.”

Core members of Musk’s team are now classified as federal officials, with some of them serving, like the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, as unpaid special government employees.

Kliger graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 2020 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, as well as 3.95 grade point average, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He previously worked as an intern at Twitter, before Musk’s 2022 takeover and rebranding of the social media platform, and as a software engineer at the AI firm Databricks.

In a since-deleted Substack post, Kliger claimed he gave up “millions of dollars, prestige, and a life of comfort” in Silicon Valley to correct the “institutional failure” and “systemic corruption” in Washington.

Currently, he’s listed as a senior adviser to the director for technology and delivery at the US Office of Personnel Management. --->READ MORE HERE

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