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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
James Liddell

DOGE claims it found $4.7 trillion in Treasury payments that are ‘untraceable’

The Department of Government Efficiency said that it found $4.7 trillion in untraceable Treasury payments that were missing a critical tracking code.

Elon Musk’s non-official advisory body, tasked with slashing bureaucracy and reining in federal spending, said that transactions were missing the Treasury Account Symbol: an identification code used to classify all transactions of the federal government.

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