Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: PoliticalWire/ NOTUS

Across federal agencies, the Trump administration’s aggressive slash-and-burn approach to federal programs, grants and contracts has repeatedly challenged Congress’ power of the purse. The administration has claimed it has the discretion to redirect funds to programs aligned with Trump’s agenda — and Republican congressional leaders have largely let them do it.

The outcome: Billions in taxpayer dollars have become virtually untraceable — a level of opaqueness in government funds that’s raising questions around the legality of the administration’s actions. Some of these taxpayer funds expire on Sept. 30. If they’re not spent by then, like all funds Congress appropriated specifically for 2025, they disappear.

NOTUS attempted to trace the money appropriated for more than 100 government programs to understand where taxpayer dollars are going, only to hit dead ends repeatedly. Data is outdated or conflicting, agencies have been vague in their explanations, and in many cases, there’s no publicly available evidence that appropriated money is being spent at all.

The connection between Congress’ decisions and current spending should be obvious — but in many cases today, it’s obscured.


Read more: https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/billions-taxpayer-dollars-virtually-untraceable-appropriations-trump-omb-russ-vought

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[Lovie777]

1. DUH..................

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. Exactly. (n/t)

[Mr.Bee]

24. This!

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Makes one wonder how much the regime is skimming.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Skimming? They are stealing the whole damn thing.

Every cent they can get their hands on.

[cpamomfromtexas]

20. They will steal it and put it in crypto

[Justice matters.]

31. The dump family's cryptos (?) nt

[SergeStorms]

36. Bitcoin.

They know their crypto will be worthless soon. His cult will be left holding the bag.

[yellow dahlia]

46. A shell game,

and even more obfuscated by the smoke and mirrors.

Or - is it going to pay down the debt?

[Irish_Dem]

48. Yes I was thinking the same YD.

Ponzi scheme of mass proportions.
The entire US budget, assets, revenue.

I wonder if there will be anything left when Trump is done with us.

[vapor2]

26. Don't have to wonder do we?

[Coldwater]

3. Billions unaccounted for

Didn't anyone check TACO's bank account

[Irish_Dem]

5. The Trump Crime Syndicate is stashing it in untraceable offshore accounts?

[Coldwater]

7. It's illegal without proper reporting and adherence to IRS regulations.

As if the IRS would go after trump ~ sigh

[ananda]

17. Is there such a thing as "illegal" in Trumpworld?

???

[Irish_Dem]

22. Ha ha. Trump commits ten crimes before breakfast, no one care.

Every single thing he does is either illegal, immoral, or unethical.

[yellow dahlia]

47. Or all three at once.

[BattleRow]

51. You forgot fattening...

[Irish_Dem]

54. True. But this is the least of his sins.

And it benefits us in the long run.

[BattleRow]

55. Touche

[rubbersole]

16. Repaying Deutsche Bank..

With intrest.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Trump never pays his debts. He is stiffing everyone while raking in the cash.

[ms liberty]

6. We need the GAO. Accountants and auditors will find out where the money went

Then we should figure out how to take it back. Maybe we should have some trials, named after something, something that sounds properly serious and weighty - you know, something like Nuremburg.
F*cking grifters.

[cpamomfromtexas]

21. There is not enough of them

I was the military version of them. We would work with them periodically.

[LymphocyteLover]

8. He's FUBARed the country-- fucked up beyond all repair

[Javaman]

9. feature, not a bug. nt

[SonOfNebanaube]

10. Well, I just saw an op- Ed on bailing out Argentina. n/t.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Yeah, Milei is a mini-tRump. His tRump-like policies are crushing Argentina. . . . nt

[markodochartaigh]

12. Remember the financial crises in Asia and Latin America

in the 90's and 00's? Remember what the pundits said were the root causes of those crises? Corruption and lack of transparency.

Well, don't worry. "It Can't Happen Here."

[FakeNoose]

13. Why are we paying taxes? Seriously ....

... there needs to be a large-scale taxpayer revolt in this country.

[NoMoreRepugs]

15. It will be the greatest looting of the U.S. Treasury in HISTORY.

[rubbersole]

18. Not only "will be" - "is"...

Has anybody checked Ft. Knox lately? Any accounting of the nation's gold supply? When we find out it was promised to putin if he'd install tsf one more time so he could torment everybody who hurt his fee fees😢💦...

[Bayard]

33. trump had said he was going to inspect it,

But then never did. Looks like the last president to actually see the gold there was FDR.

[rubbersole]

35. I guess James Bond doesn't count...🫠

[BattleRow]

52. How synchronistic that lootin' and Putin rhyme.

[mdbl]

19. This is what happens when you elect a finacial fraud felon

What did those dumbass voters think they were gettting? Oh yeah, cue Fux Nooze, Noozmacks and all the other morons they listen to.

[aggiesal]

25. Lost in the world of crypto, never to be retrieved again. n/t

[chouchou]

27. I'm not so sure about that kind of stuff (sarcasm) but, the real problem is this..

Just this morning I saw a old lady buy some ice cream with FOOD STAMPS !
that what we half to stopp that kind of waist! I gave her a piece of my mind..for shame..for shame..

[Qutzupalotl]

28. I have to wonder whether this is related to Hegseth's emergency meeting with top generals.

Last edited Thu Sep 25, 2025, 01:30 PM - Edit history (1)

They are expecting a shutdown, perhaps a long one. Trump is deliberately sandbagging negotiations. They want a crisis. They want a government that doesn't function.

If they have created a slush fund, they could keep paying loyalists and fire everyone else. With military apparently okay to deploy in our streets, we could see a further deterioration of our norms.

[dweller]

29. HCR today

“Trump administration is “attempting to raid programs that Congress has authorized and appropriated to strengthen democracy, advance peace and support vulnerable communities and instead funnel that money into an unaccountable slush fund.”

link : https://archive.ph/RJ3Uf

from : https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-24-2025



✌🏻

[Moostache]

30. How much you wanna bet the DOGE kiddies have the $$$$?

I bet they are like the thieves in "Goodfellas" buying cars and swag and flashing cash everywhere they go...

[Owens]

32. The silence from the Democrats is DEAFENING

I'm so tired of "strongly worded" letters

[dlk]

34. Imagine that...

This administration is all about the cash grab.

[pansypoo53219]

37. he can't die soon enough.

civics FAIL.

[SmittyWerben]

38. Ah, DOGE working as intended

All those DOGE youngsters had access to all this information. If accounts are screwed up and money lost there will be no way to trace the funds, and their transfer out, of the country. More millionaires created on the backs of the tax payer with a complicit republican party aiding and abetting the theft.

[progressoid]

39. That is one depressing article

Most depressing is that the people who voted for this bullshit are the ones who also scream for more accountability.

[The Wizard]

40. Embezzling is an indictable offense. (NT)

[WestMichRad]

41. So TSF's scam is working as intended.

[Clouds Passing]

42. So no bailouts for the farmers, because its all been stolen

[orangecrush]

43. Kick

[JoseBalow]

44. I'm confident our president is managing it responsibly

and in the best interest of the American people.

[Autumn]

45. The Cartel hasn't repeatedly challenged Congress' power of the purse.

Republicans happily handed it over to them.

[bluestarone]

49. How to Self DESTRUCT America

Vote in a REPUBLICAN!

[Beck23]

50. It's not hard ...

To guess where it went.

[joetubes]

53. e musk computer geeks

WTF do you think all those MUSK computer geek have been doing. Oh ya the were looking for fraud and abuse in the federal budget ? they weren't stealing or making themself billionaires. Musk wouldn't do that he is honest business man like the rump.

[travelingthrulife]

56. Can we arrest them yet?