Make the DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk and taxpayers reveal whats really in Americas checkbook

A federal judge’s decision to bar Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the Treasury Department’s payment system is most likely a temporary setback — but it illustrates the urgent need to secure a permanent win for transparency.Progressives are panicking because their 100-year, largely successful assault on American constitutional government is in danger of being reversed.Thanks to Musk’s wise plan to follow the money, he has a historic opportunity to mount a coup — not on behalf of himself or President Trump, but for We the People.But to make the revolution stick, he’ll have to make transparency a permanent feature of our federal government.He can do it with a simple tool allowing individual Americans to view the Treasury payment system in real time.Call it “America’s Checkbook.” Our nonprofit organization, Open the Books, is ready to help.Our concept is based on a fundamental belief that the money the Treasury spends is the property of American taxpayers.Those funds belong to We the People, not to any branch of government — and certainly not to an unelected administrative state.Individual Americans have the same right to review “America’s Checkbook” as they do their own personal accounts.Why not allow taxpayers to set up their own “fraud alerts” or “low balance alerts,” flagging them when their money goes to a purpose that they find objectionable?Let taxpayers see their money flows — every dime, online, in real time — to infrastructure projects, cancer research, life-saving humanitarian assistance .

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and drag shows in Ecuador.Then trust them to demand of their legislators more or less of each.To be clear, Musk and his DOGE recruits only had “read-only” access to the payment system.Despite all the leftist caterwauling, when Musk regains access he won’t be able to cut off Social Security payments to “enemies” or siphon off funds to Tesla or Space X.Giving taxpayers that same “read-only�...