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?"
On Dec. 8, 2016, then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, who is currently in the midst of the confirmation process for director of national intelligence, gave a speech before introducing her proposed legislation, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act.
"Under U.S. law it is illegal for you, me, or any American to provide any type of assistance to al-Qaida, ISIS, or other terrorist groups. If we broke this law, we would be thrown in jail," Gabbard said.
"Yet the U.S. government has been violating this law for years, directly and indirectly supporting allies and partners of groups like al-Qaida and ISIS with money, weapons, intelligence, and other forms of support in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government."
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