February 8, 2025

Elon Musk said on Saturday that the Treasury Department and his Department of Government Efficiency have reached an agreement changing reporting requirements for “all outgoing government payments.”

The government payments will now have a “payment categorization code” for auditing purposes, he wrote in a post on X, the social media site he owns.

Musk also said payments must provide a rationale in a comment field, adding they are “not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale” but that all payments must have one. Musk added that the do-not-pay list of people or companies that shouldn’t receive government money should be updated “at least weekly, if not daily.”

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