system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 When a company gets fined $100,000,000 by the FCC, when do they pay out the money, where does it go, and what is it used for?
gpt
**US code Title 47, Section 504(a)**

>The forfeitures provided for in this chapter shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States.

So basically, it goes to the treasury and becomes part of the US Budget.