Super Disappointed in the AICPA and other Accounting organizations praising Trump & DOGE, super hypocritical
I am a CPA and recently attended an online AICPA Town Hall webinar for CPE credit. What a few of the speakers said about the DOGE "auditing" the government and praising Elon and Trump made me very disappointed in them. DOGE and Trump are not trying to find fraud, waste, and abuse. They are trying to cut necessary programs and agencies to make up for the huge tax for the wealthy that Trump is trying to reinstate this year, along with privatizing those agencies to help the wealthy, and stop oversight of their misdealings. I was surprised that the AICPA speakers didn't at least question that there are zero government auditors and/or forensic accountants on the DOGE team doing these so called audits. Instead a bunch of child hackers/coders, who have very little experience and know nothing about the government are doing them. On top if that, the guy in charge, Elon, is a billionaire, who is also one of the largest government contractors, that gets government subsidies, tax cuts, and contracts. HUGE red flags and conflict of interest, which is drilled into us CPAs and part of our rules & regulations. I'm so very disappointed in the AICPA, as well as the lack of outcry from our community. Why aren't more accounting and financial professionals calling this crap out. I'm all for finding and weeding out government fraud, waste, and abuse, but what's going on isn't it, and I should know, as it's my job.