OPEN LETTER TO ELON MUSK: Let's Build "America's Checkbook!" February 5, 2025 07:08 PM Published at Open the Books Substack EXCERPT: I’m writing to request that you work with our team at Open the Books to create a new transparency tool called “America’s Checkbook” that would give individual Americans the opportunity to access the Treasury payment system in real time. Our request is based on a simple belief that the money in the Treasury payment system is the property of American taxpayers. Those funds belong to We the People, not any branch of government and certainly not an unelected administrative state. Individual Americans have the same right to access “America’s Checkbook” as they do their own personal accounts. … The narrative that the Executive Branch (via DOGE) “gained access” to the Executive Branch’s payment system begs a troubling question: Who was in charge before? READ THE FULL LETTER Back to news