The U.S. holds a lot of gold. But revaluing it at current prices wouldn’t do much to improve the fiscal challenges in Washington.

Donald Trump said his administration is going to audit the U.S. gold reserves kept at Fort Knox in Kentucky. A drive to audit Fort Knox has gained steam from comments by Elon Musk recently. Conspiracy theories have emerged from time to time about whether the government is being truthful about the amount of gold stored there because of the forts high security.