On Saturday, Elon Musk, chair of the Department of Government Efficiency, said the U.S. Treasury approved payments to terrorists.

“The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once,” Musk posted on X.

Musk’s post came as a comment to filmmaker Robby Starbuck’s post: “The highest ranking Treasury official, David A Lebryk, is resigning rather than complying with a request by @DOGE for access to audit where they’ve spent trillions of dollars a year. Why would career bureaucrats fear an audit by @elonmusk and @doge to see where we can save money?”

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