Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) promised to uncover government waste and fraud, and wow, its latest discovery out of the Treasury Department could be the most egregious example of it yet. DOGE has found a black hole within the federal bureaucracy: massive amounts of money are pouring out, but no one seems to know to whom this money is going, or what, if anything, is being received in return.
Yes, the Treasury Department, which far-left judges fought so hard to keep DOGE from investigating. Could it be that some individual or group in the Treasury Department has something to hide?
It sure looks that way. There is the usual waste and madness that DOGE has already uncovered elsewhere inside the government bureaucracy, most notably in USAID. On Thursday, DOGE announced on X: “Over the last two days, agencies terminated 401 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.1B and savings of $613M, including a $276k Treasury contract for a ‘Kenya program coordinator’, a $228k Treasury contract for ‘Kenya, Uganda, Namibia and Tanzania cruiser vehicles’, a $24k DHS contract for ‘two day training on equal opportunity in employment’, a $15k DHS contract for ‘Out and Equal workplace advocates’, and a $5.9M DoC contract for ‘environmental consulting support services.’”
Inside the Treasury Department, however, DOGE has discovered something even worse than all of that, and considerably stranger. Fox News reported Friday that Edward Coristine, the notorious nineteen-year-old DOGE staffer who bears the nickname that drove the entire blue-haired men-who-think-they’re-women community into paroxysms of prim and proper moral indignation, “Big Balls,” explained some of the latest DOGE discoveries.
Coristine, according to Fox, “said that he’s been looking through U.S. Treasury Department payment computers and finding a multitude of outgoing payments from the federal government that include no details about who they’re going to and why.” He explained: "So one of our initiatives is to root out fraud and waste, and to do that we started looking at the payment computers. And, as mentioned earlier, there’s no accounting of what payments actually go to in the payment computer."
These are not trifling amounts, either. Coristine added: "You look at a specific line item — $20 million. You’re like, ‘OK, what is this money going to?’ And for the majority of payment systems, it’s like, ‘Well, we don’t really know.’"
But someone knows. And someone is pocketing the money. Nevertheless, Coristine said that “the system that distributes government or taxpayer money ‘literally has no checks and no accountability to the actual American taxpayer. So it’s a huge vector for fraud, waste, and abuse.’"
Yes, it is. And this follows soon after DOGE’s discovery at the beginning of the week, “that hundreds of millions of dollars in improper payment requests were identified after the Treasury went live with its first automated payment system last week.” A cool “$334 million in improper payment requests” came in and were “flagged because of missing budget codes, invalid budget codes, and budget codes without authorization.”
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Coristine offered no speculation as to who might be collecting all this money, but whoever is getting it, we already know which side of the political fence they’re on. The New York Times let the cat out of the bag in a puff piece about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in late March, when it lamented Trump’s efforts to eliminate government waste and fraud, and added ingenuously: “Democrats find their legal and fund-raising institutions under attack from the Trump administration.” It looks as if the government waste and fraud that Trump and Musk have vowed to cut has been funding the left.
Maybe DOGE is coming closer to the actual mechanism by which members of the House of Representatives can become multimillionaires on a $174,000 annual salary. It looks as if DOGE is eliciting so much outrage from leftists because it’s getting ever closer to the heart of the system off which they have been living for quite some time. In any case, the recipients of this Treasury money need to be found, publicly identified, and prosecuted where appropriate. Patriots can only hope that far-left judges don’t succeed in derailing DOGE’s operations before all the rocks, or at least a significant number of them, are overturned.
