USAID New Organization Payments - New York Times Co. - Q? [Need Looking into, Explanation First Comment]
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I was watching the Tim Cast IRL morning podcast this morning 02-05-2025, and Tim pulled up the USAspending.gov website as he was talking about Politico and New York Times Co receiving money for subscriptions from the US government. And as Tim scrolled to the side, under "Disaster Emergency Funding Codes, there were a bunch of Qs. ... I'd LOVE for some more digging on this. Could be nothing or unrelated to anything related to the Q posts, and I'm not smart enough or have the time to go digging myself, but am still curious nonetheless.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EMtHNJDVlI Around 17-18 minutes in. (... also 17...?)
It's described as a default, "non-disaster" spending code:
"Recipient TAFS which have disaster and/or emergency funding transferred via expenditure transfers (including reimbursable activity) from TAFS with disaster and/or emergency appropriations will report financial activity by reporting the default DEFC domain value "Q" for non-disaster/emergency appropriations. "
Could be a good, "odd" sentinel value or just a wink/nod from someone in the know or something more. But if the goal is to spend funding on disaster aid, why is there a default code for non-disaster aid??
Hard to know the significance of this w/out being involved in the design of the tracking system, or seeing some patterns emerge from its use.
It's for Supplemental Funding Provided in Response to the Coronavirus Disease. I copied some of the codes below. Funny how Q is excluded from tracking. Here's the link https://www.nfc.usda.gov/FSS/ClientServices/FMS/DATA_Act/documents/USDA_Policies/USDA_Dep_Sec_Memo.pdf
• DEFC "L" - PL 116-123, designated as emergency • DEFC "M" - PL 116-127, designated as emergency • DEFC "N" - PL 116-136 (CARES Act), designated as emergency • DEFC "0" - PL 116-136 (CARES Act), not designated as emergency • DEFC "Q" - Excluded from tracking, continue to use (non-emergency/nondisaster designated appropriations).
To add to that, it looks like disaster emergency fund codes (DEFC) were introduced pretty recently, back in 2017:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180205024000/https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/M-18-08.pdf
"The new requirement will impact the reporting within the Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS) where a new Disaster Emergency Fund Code (DEFC) attribute has been introduced. This will not impact the format of existing budgetary reports. "
TBH it just looks like a sort of default..
Yes, they had to create new codes specifically for Covid Disaster Relief. Probably just slapping letters in there that don't necessarily have any significance otherwise.
Here's Q drop 2801 that references news organizations and references to 'qanon'
Politico
NY Times
BBC
it cant be coincidence. it could but that would be incredible.