Lost Treasure At The Treasury Department
One of the reasons the left despises Trump is that he is effective. When they criticize him and say he runs the government like a business, it’s because, as lifelong politicians, they cannot grasp how the bloated system they created could be replaced. Politicians no longer serve the public; they serve themselves. There is no other way to explain their abundant wealth.
Trump made his wealth outside of politics, and that galls the swamp. He is a threat to their greed and overflowing coffers, and now he has created a department specifically to oversee government waste. Remember that waste is not just money spent on reckless or futile projects. Waste is also money that is unaccounted for, some of which miraculously finds its way back into the pockets of said politicians.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already uncovered extreme spending waste, and Trump has only been in office for 13 days. On Friday, Elon Musk posted on X that:
“The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.”
“They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.”
As a result of this discovery, David A. Lebryk, a long-serving Treasury official who was named acting secretary by President Trump upon taking office last week, announced his retirement in an email to colleagues on Friday. According to reports, Lebryk had a dispute with representatives of Elon Musk regarding access to the U.S. government’s payment system, which is used to distribute trillions of dollars annually.
Lebryk and the Treasury Department should not have been surprised by the request. Trump signed an executive order instructing all agencies to ensure DOGE has “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems,” which includes the Treasury payment systems.
A small group of career bureaucrats at the Bureau of Fiscal Service manages the payment system. This bureau oversees the distribution of more than $6 trillion each year to households, businesses, and various entities nationwide. This includes payments related to Social Security, Medicare, federal salaries, government contractors, tax refunds, grants, and more.
The left reacted in typical fashion. Instead of being either outraged by the revelation or thankful for DOGE uncovering it, the Washington Post reported it this way:
The clash reflects an intensifying battle between Musk and the federal bureaucracy as the Trump administration nears the conclusion of its second week. Musk has sought to exert sweeping control over the inner workings of the U.S. government, installing longtime surrogates at several agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, which essentially handles federal human resources, and the General Services Administration, which manages real estate. (Musk was seen on Thursday visiting GSA, according to two other people familiar with his whereabouts, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal matters. That visit was first reported by the New York Times.) His Department of Government Efficiency, originally conceived as a nongovernmental panel, has since replaced the U.S. Digital Service.
The left proves every day that they approve of the swamp and the deep state corruption if a Trump administration exposes it and repairs it. They care nothing about the waste, no matter how detrimental it is to the American taxpayers.
Democrats hate DOGE because they could never endorse something that helps drain the swamp. The irony is that anything they desperately try to convince the public that Musk will do is already being done by the government corruption already in place.
Another example of the “Do as I say, Not as I do” agenda. Enough is enough.
