The so -called effect of the Elon Musk Government (DOGE) spent the first six weeks of the Trump administration that transformed the Federal government upside down. It has moved from Agency to workSensitive data access and payment system, all on a cross -government is said to be government audit and prevent fraud, waste and abuse. Doge posted some “Results” on its websiteMany of them have been Revealed is okay error.
But the two federal auditors have many years of experience, both working in financial and technical audits for the government, saying that Doge's actions are the furthest thing from what a practical audit looks like. Both requested to talk about an unnamed condition because they were not allowed to talk to the press.
To be honest, comparing the real audit with what Doge is doing, no comparison, he said one of the auditors who talked to Wired. None of them are auditors.
In September, in one speech During the presidential campaign, after that, candidate Donald Trump said he would create an effective task force of the Government, headed by Musk, which would carry out a complete financial audit and performance of the entire federal government. Musk initially said he wanted to cut $ 2 trillion From the federal budget, more than the entire arbitrary budget 2023 of $ 1.7 trillion. Since then, Musk has revealed his ambition, saying that he will cut 1 trillion dollars in the government's spending. However, he has accused that most of this money may be reduced by identifying waste, fraud and abuse, and has continued to declare the reduction of Dogo's agency and resources are part of the auditor.
Although there are certainly cases where the government's money has withdrawn money to cheatA study of the Government Office Published in 2024 estimated that the government lost from 233 billion to 521 billion dollars to cheat each year, even when recovering all that spending will not reach Musk $ 1 trillion hoping to cut from the budget.
The auditors talked to wired allegations that not only did Musk's request were not true, but also Doge seemed to have completely avoided existing processes to really originate from waste, fraud and abuse.
An audit according to government audit standards (GAGAS) is often accepted, also known as yellow book audit, which is made according to standards issued by the US Government Office. Auditing may focus on financial, compliance or implementation of an agency. That is the gold standard for how you audit the government.
Overall there are five Gagas audit phases, auditors tell Wired: planning, collecting evidence, evaluation, reporting and monitoring. The auditor works to determine the scope of the audit, identify all current laws and standards, and give an audit plan. Next, the auditor performed interviews with employees, reviewed financial and combable documents through data, reports and transactions, recorded all ways. From there, the auditor will evaluate that information against policies or procedures to find out if there are some types of waste, cheating or abuse and making detailed reports on their findings and making recommendations. Usually, those reports are made Available for the public. After the audit, the auditors can monitor with the agency to ensure the changes are made.