WATCH: GOP senators rail against staggering $4.7 trillion in untraceable Treasury payments

Earlier this year, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uncovered $4.7 trillion successful untraceable Treasury Department payments. 

Prior to the discovery, Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) recognition codes were optional for $4.7 trillion successful Treasury Department payments, truthful they were often near blank and were untraceable. The tract is present required to summation "insight into wherever the wealth is really going," the Treasury Department and DOGE announced successful February. 

"Of the 1.5 cardinal payments that we nonstop retired each year, they are required to person a TAS, a Treasury Account Symbol. We discovered that much than 1 3rd of those payments did not person a TAS number," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said earlier the House Appropriations Subcommittee connected Financial Services and General Government earlier this month. 

Fox News Digital asked Republican senators connected Capitol Hill to respond to the astir 500,000 successful untraceable payments made by the Treasury Department each year. 

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GOP Sens. Dan Sullivan (left) and Roger Marshall railed against the Treasury Department's untraceable payments.  (Nicholas Ballasy/Fox News Digital)

"I'm not amazed astatine all, unfortunately," Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said earlier adding, "They were leaving implicit fields undone erstwhile they were filling retired their financials, truthful this is simply a communal theme. I'm not surprised."

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Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, called for an probe into wherever those payments really went. 

"There's truthful overmuch waste. There's truthful overmuch fraud, There's truthful overmuch maltreatment successful our government," Schmitt told Fox News Digital. "I'm gladsome determination was a laser-like absorption connected it. We ought to marque galore of those reforms permanent, but determination astir apt ought to beryllium immoderate investigations present astir wherever this wealth really went. I mean this is payer money. People enactment hard."

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk person worked to destruct waste, fraud and maltreatment done the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)

After DOGE and the Treasury Department uncovered $4.7 trillion successful untraceable funds, Marshall and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida introduced a bill successful March requiring the Treasury Department to way each payments. 

The Locating Every Disbursement successful Government Expenditure Records (LEDGER) Act seeks to summation transparency successful however the Treasury Department spends payer money. 

"When you perceive astir this communicative that they didn't cognize wherever the wealth was going, it makes you huffy due to the fact that this is somebody's money, this is taxpayers' wealth erstwhile we person astir $37 trillion successful debt, truthful this makes nary consciousness astatine all," Scott said. 

Elon Musk shows disconnected his t-shirt speechmaking "Tech Support" portion speaking astatine the archetypal furniture gathering hosted by President Donald Trump, astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., Feb. 26, 2025. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

The Congressional Budget projects that involvement payments connected America's nationalist indebtedness volition full $952 cardinal successful fiscal twelvemonth 2025. That's $102 cardinal much than the United States' defence fund astatine $850 billion. 

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"We paid retired much past twelvemonth connected our debt, $36 trillion successful debt, with $950 cardinal successful interest going to bondholders each implicit the world, including successful China. That $950 cardinal didn't spell to physique a span oregon an F-35. We paid much connected the involvement connected indebtedness than we did to money our military," said Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska. 

"That is an inflection constituent that erstwhile astir countries hit, you look astatine history, that's erstwhile large powers commencement to decline. So we person to get those savings."