Elon Musk alleges $50B in fraud at Treasury after judge blocks DOGE audit

Elon Musk reacted to a federal judge’s order momentarily obstructing the Department of Federal government Effectiveness’s (DOGE) access to delicate Treasury Department information with a blitz of X posts declaring stunning levels of prospective scams.

The initial injunction released Saturday by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer backed 19 Democratic state chief law officers who declared that offering DOGE “complete gain access to” to the Treasury’s payment systems breaches the law.

Engelmayer set up a Feb. 20 hearing, till which time DOGE will have lessened access to Treasury information that consists of Americans’ Social Security, Medicare, veterans advantages and tax refund details.

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However Musk stated DOGE had actually currently discovered significant issues with the method the Treasury Department was paying America’s expenses before Engelmayer’s injunction.

“[Friday], I was informed that there are presently over $100B/year of privileges payments to people without any SSN or perhaps a short-lived ID number. If precise, this is exceptionally suspicious,” Musk composed hours after the judgment.

” When I asked if anybody at Treasury had a rough guess for what portion of that number is unquestionable and apparent scams, the agreement in the space had to do with half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! This is entirely crazy and should be resolved right away.”

The X, Tesla and SpaceX owner and Trump confidante likewise suggested that previous Treasury authorities obstructed their workers from examining waste.

” No one in Treasury management cared enough previously,” Musk composed. “I do wish to credit the working level individuals in Treasury who have actually wished to do this for several years, however have actually been dropped in previous management.”

Among the objectives concurred upon by DOGE and the Treasury Department, Musk stated, is to “need that all outbound federal government payments have a payment classification code, which is needed in order to pass monetary audits.”

” This is regularly left blank, making audits nearly difficult,” he included.

Musk likewise worried that all Treasury payments “should likewise consist of a reasoning for the payment in the remark field, which is presently left blank.”

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” Notably, we are not yet using ANY judgment to this reasoning, however just needing that SOME effort be made to discuss the payment more than absolutely nothing!” Musk composed. “The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities understood to be deceitful or individuals who are dead or are possible fronts for terrorist companies or do not match Congressional appropriations should in fact be executed and not overlooked.

” Likewise, it can presently use up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list ought to be upgraded a minimum of weekly, if not day-to-day,” the business owner included. “The above incredibly apparent and needed modifications are being executed by existing, veteran profession civil servant, not anybody from @DOGE.”

Musk included that it was “outrageous that these modifications didn’t exist currently” and exposed he was just recently informed of huge waste in privilege payments, to the tune of $1 billion each week.

” Whatever at Treasury was tailored towards grumble[t] reduction,” he included. “Individuals who get cash do not grumble, however individuals who do not get cash (specifically scammers) grumble really loudly, so the scams was permitted to continue.”