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How Do You Stop Zombie Government Payments?

About a hundred to two hundred billion dollars a year in zombie payments would not go out simply by enforcing a payment code and an explanation. That change was made to the main Treasury computer and a bunch of other computers. Two or three percent of government payments should not be going out, and it is actually quite hard to stop.

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Elon Musk on DOGE, AI, & Are we in a Simulation? | KMP Ep.18 ·

The Katie Miller Podcast

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