The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.
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The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025
Forget the traceability of the payments for a minute.
A) Who was entering these payments to be processed?
B) Who was approving these payments?
C) Who was validating that the authorized, accurate and was it budgeted? @elonmusk
— NahBabyNah (@NahBabyNah) February 18, 2025
DOGE Police Blotter: About those $4.7 Trillion untraceable Treasury Department expenditures. A good place to start looking for them is Biden’s Secretary of the Department of Treasury Janet Yellen and her husband George Akerlof. They’re both glued to the hips of the USAID-obsessed… pic.twitter.com/zcVLANwtGB
— Saint James Hartline (@JamesHartline) February 18, 2025