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When Musk took over the Treasury and locked the doors behind him, he didn't take any accountants with him. This isn't an audit. He took hackers.

Yes, exactly. I am not an accountant (or auditor) but I believe that they do not go into bank accounts and move money back to payers, or stop authorized payments. Allowing Musk to do this with no oversight is damn foolishness. Nothing I’m saying addresses the underlying constitutional issues.

Or the real pain Musk is causing.

I have read about two different types of disruption here. We know that money congress appropriated for targeted programs had the payments halted.

Is this money still under the exclusive control of congress/treasury, or can it be, uh, ‘diverted’. I’m wondering how our accounting systems are tracking this money. Is there any way now to know where this money wound up?

The second type of disruption is even more alarming (to me). The NYT reported that Musk successfully removed 80 million dollars from a bank in New York that had been paid by FEMA. Where is that money now?