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Will you go on the record and say that $4.7T in a year is fraudulent or misspent? I want to be crystal clear with what you're insinuating, because that's a massive amount of money, easily the biggest fraud of all time by a factor of almost 30.

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That's not what he said. He said the accounting is bad making it impossible to know how much is misspent.

I don't understand what this means though, almost all of our money passes an audit which necessarily has a paper trail. The few agencies which don't usually have very idiosyncratic audit misses which are, in any event, overseen by inspectors general (or were until trump fired all of them) which have been very zealous to jump on this.

That's not accurate. The Pentagon, for example, has not passed its annual financial audit since it was first required to undergo them in 2018.

This is definitely not accurate.

The poster or the headline doesn’t say they are all fraudulent. It says the payments are nearly impossible to trace.

so then misspent? Must be, because if it's not misspent than impossible to trace is a little irrelevant. It can't be unaudited, because every department passes an audit every year (except the DoD, but they basically pass an audit and the reasons they currently don't are mostly technical)

Well, it’s going to have to pass the Elon Misk audit now. Bless his efforts.

"insinuate -- suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way."

I am not "insinuating" but saying that I would like to know where my money goes. If you pay taxes, would not you?

Can you not find it? I can find basically any spending data I want at the tip of my fingers (well, less so now that it's unclear what's being paid) - anything specific that you feel is missing that you want to see?

If you know where the 4.7T went, please reach out to Elon.

I. don't. know. what he's talking about. that's the problem. If I tell you "I'm thiking of $5T, tell me where it is" where does that leave you?

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