Also 100% of USAIDs programs have to be approved line item by line item. They go through 4 approval processes INCLUDING 2 by the Congressional oversight committees. Why the f-ck were they not stopped then if they were fraud?
$4.7T untraceable
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Could be. A lot of young women married old Civil War soldiers. Visiting the farm where Stonewall's arm was buried the guide said the owner married like an 18-year old when he was 80. My battlefield travelling buddy was deeply impressed.
Straw man much?
Who claimed inept governance 'sprang up' only during the Big Guy's administration?
Except the oversight committees have been chaired and controlled by Maga Republicans for much of the past decade. Including now. Makes sense.
Wrong, you guys are the suckers. Bidone is all I need to say. The dems and the press fell for it all the way. By the way, where are they hiding that smart, sharp, hard workin, on the ball, high IQ, low handicap golfin bike riding beach bum wack job?
The 72 billion was over an 8 year period. Elon only received 20 billion from the government by comparison.
Yes, don’t believe as all the b.s. that Trump and Elon are spitting out. It’s just a shell game.
He's correct:
Jason Chaffetz 2015-2017
Trey Gowdy 2017 - 2019
James Comer 2023 - Current
It's not fraud. That's the wrong word. They're spending the money on things many of us wouldn't want them to spend it on, but that's not fraud.
So surely they would have released examples of this right? A specific timeline of the untraceable funds (i.e, when and what amount)?
Quite an extraordinary claim to make and I'm hoping that DOGE provides some back up for this claim.
I would also point out that the actual language from DOGE states "n the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible."
In other words, it wasn't untraceable.
It has all the charm of the election being rigged stuff.
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It is incredible that both you and Buck Dharma are both getting direct deposit SS checks and have never been seen in the same place together. Hmmmm
Good catch on the almost, so it is almost possible fraud
Worthwhile to point out as to the TAS, DOGE noted "[a]s of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going." Stated differently, there was insight into where money was going, but clearly DOGE lacked the expertise to sort through it.
And because the wunderkinds at DOGE walked in without knowledge of the system and couldn't immediately figure it out, people panic that it is proof of massive fraud and waste.
There is no problem with increasing insight, if using the code helps it helps. Do it by all means. But to go from there to proof he's uncovered a crisis is just trying to declare victory before the jump ball.
Where's the indictments?
You claim fraud and have proof, why aren't they being charged?
As I recall, our funeral director applied to the VA to get some sort of tiny cash death benefit and also a brass plaque (commemorating my father's veteran status) that screws onto the back of his tombstone. And, once the VA becomes aware that the veteran has passed, it informs SS, Medicare, etc. of the death.
The most interesting part of that process was when the VA electronically retrieved the last monthly payment it had made to dad's account a couple weeks earlier (called Aid and Attendance maybe?), explaining that he wasn't entitled to that last payment because he hadn't lived long enough into the subsequent month. Weird!!
I had been tipped off this retrieval might happen so I had placed some extra money into his account and no checks bounced.
Hey Aloha, here's how far I got so far:
Snopes says about 44,000 people over the age of 100 (not 150 or 200 as Musk suggested) out of 18.9 million people born before 1920 are apparently still receiving benefits.
Analyzing Musk's claim that '150-year-olds' are collecting Social Security payments
"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," tech billionaire Elon Musk said on X.
www.snopes.com
My own sixth-grade math skills determine that 44,000 / 18,900,000 = .00232 of one percent may be receiving benefits.
Here's another link:
Are 150-year-old Americans receiving Social Security checks, as Elon Musk said? - Poynter
The explanation for apparent 150-year-olds receiving checks could relate to arcane coding practices, experts said
www.poynter.org
That is a lot fewer than Musk's alarmist posts suggest. How about it Kelley School grads -- aren't the stats discussed above pretty much freshman level or lower? Shouldn't Musk understand the correct calculation?
There is less reason every day to think Musk is a genius. He has received $5.3 BILLION from the US government since 2000.
How Much Money Has Elon Musk Received From The Government - CEO!
Elon Musk has been known for his world-changing ideas and innovations. How much money has the government given him for his various ventures? We'll answer that
www.ceoinfluencers.com
Musk is not a self-made man at all. He could not have even popped the pimples on his South African/Canadian ass without a tremendous amount of help. Above all, the Trumpers fail to admit that this Social Security situation (whatever it is) existed during Trump's first administration, and we all know how little Trump did about it.
Not as much as Republicans/Conservatives.
Trump is a selfmade man. Haha.
Musk (who adores Trump) is a selfmade man. Haha.
You guys are precious.
I would send you some links to sixth-grade-level readers, but what would be the point?
LOL. He says $500 million is going to ESGs in Africa, clearly doesn't know what those are (how could he not in this day and age??) even though he reads from his paper that they are investments, then says "someone got 500 million dollars [for what] "sounds like an environmental study."
What Is ESG Investing?
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing refers to a set of standards that socially conscious investors use to screen investments.
Bro really struggled with reading, as well as the understanding of what he read. Not surprising--anything without pair of porn start t*ts and he's completely disinterestedLOL. He says $500 million is going to ESGs in Africa, clearly doesn't know what those are (how could he not in this day and age??) even though he reads from his paper that they are investments, then says "someone got 500 million dollars [for what] "sounds like an environmental study."
What Is ESG Investing?
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing refers to a set of standards that socially conscious investors use to screen investments.www.investopedia.com
Perhaps not, but isn’t it about bathrobes and fraternity anyway ?
What? 60 million instead of the reported 50 million? lmao You are a strange one.
Musk is not a self made man lol. You are one dumb mother fckr weasel. Whoever kicked you in the head to make you this dumb should have just kept kickingHey Aloha, here's how far I got so far:
Snopes says about 44,000 people over the age of 100 (not 150 or 200 as Musk suggested) out of 18.9 million people born before 1920 are apparently still receiving benefits.
Analyzing Musk's claim that '150-year-olds' are collecting Social Security payments
"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," tech billionaire Elon Musk said on X.
My own sixth-grade math skills determine that 44,000 / 18,900,000 = .00232 of one percent may be receiving benefits.
Here's another link:
Are 150-year-old Americans receiving Social Security checks, as Elon Musk said? - Poynter
The explanation for apparent 150-year-olds receiving checks could relate to arcane coding practices, experts said
That is a lot fewer than Musk's alarmist posts suggest. How about it Kelley School grads -- aren't the stats discussed above pretty much freshman level or lower? Shouldn't Musk understand the correct calculation?
There is less reason every day to think Musk is a genius. He has received $5.3 BILLION from the US government since 2000.
How Much Money Has Elon Musk Received From The Government - CEO!
Elon Musk has been known for his world-changing ideas and innovations. How much money has the government given him for his various ventures? We'll answer that
Musk is not a self-made man at all. He could not have even popped the pimples on his South African/Canadian ass without a tremendous amount of help. Above all, the Trumpers fail to admit that this Social Security situation (whatever it is) existed during Trump's first administration, and we all know how little Trump did about it.
Oh, well pssshtttt. 8 or 9 billion a year. A rounding error.
Clearly, there's no reason to further investigate SSA for any further possible overspending.
