Elon Musk Calls for Urgent Treasury Reforms: “We should not pay dead people, terrorists, or known fraudsters”
Trump and Musk's Doge plan: slash waste, expose fraud, and save billions—your tax dollars finally working for you, not bureaucrats.
President Trump and Elon Musk have introduced the DOGE initiative, a bold strategy to combat bureaucratic waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, aiming to restore democratic accountability, enforce basic financial controls, and slash the $2 trillion deficit by rooting out incompetence and corruption.
Ever wondered where your tax dollars go? Trump and Musk are pulling back the curtain, and it's a mess of blank checks and bureaucratic overreach.
They've already uncovered billions in fraudulent spending, with Musk exposing Treasury's lack of basic controls—like uncategorized payments and ignored Do Not Pay lists—while arguing that an unelected bureaucracy threatens democracy by disconnecting the people from their government.
Elon explains the reason why our government can’t pass financial audits:
"So the reason that departments can't pass audits is because the payments don't have a categorization code. It's like just a massive number of blank checks just flying out the building. So you can't reconcile blank checks. You've got comic fields that are also blanks you don't know why the payment was made. And then we've got this truly absurd a 'Do Not Pay' list, which can take up to a year before an organization to get on a 'Do Not Pay' list. And this we're talking about terrorist organizations. We're talking about known fraudsters, known aspects of waste, known things that do not match any congressional appropriation, can take up to a year to get on the list. And even what's on the list, the list is not used. It's mind blowing."
Trump's frustration with potential judicial interference and Musk's push for accountability underscore the urgency of these reforms, aiming to halve the deficit through competence, caring, and deregulation, ensuring taxpayer money serves the public, not fraudsters or dead-end programs.
This isn't just about cutting waste—it's a call to rethink how government operates, demanding transparency, accountability, and a democracy that truly responds to the people, challenging us to imagine a system where every dollar counts.