Elon Musk on Tuesday praised a Treasury Department report detailing hundreds of millions of dollars in “improper payment requests” as a “big deal.”

In a repost on X from the Department of Government Efficiency, it was stated that when the Treasury Department went “live with its first automated payment verification system,” it reported identifying and rejecting $334 million in payment requests because of “missing budget codes, invalid budget codes (i.e., the payment was not linked to the budget), [and] budget codes with no authorization (i.e., the budget had already been fully spent).”

DOGE added that the Treasury Access Symbol is an identification code that links a payment to a budget line item.

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