redstate.com By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
Fox News Senior Correspondent and host of “Special Report” Bret Baier sat down with Elon Musk and the entire DOGE team on Thursday. This is a step up from the individual interviews done with Musk and one or two of the members. While their work overlaps all of the government agencies, each DOGE member spoke to the findings at particular agencies like the Social Security Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Health, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of the Interior.
Baier kicked off his questioning with Musk, asking what are the DOGE budgetary savings goals and what he thinks he’s achieved thus far?
MUSK: Our goal is to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars. So, from a nominal deficit of two trillion to try to cut the deficit in half to one trillion. Or looked at in total federal spending, to drop the federal spending from seven trillion to six trillion. We want to reduce the spending by eliminating waste and fraud and reduce the spending by 15 percent. Which seems really quite achievable. The government is not efficient and there’s a lot of waste and fraud, so, we feel confident that a 15 percent reduction can be done without affecting any of the critical government services. In fact, making it better.
Baier asked, “What’s the most astonishing thing you’ve found out in this process?”
MUSK: The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government. It’s astonishing, it’s mind-blowing. We routinely encounter waste of a billion dollars or more. Casually.
While the American people had no concept of the details, many of us have known for decades that this was the case. Worse, that prior administrations and lawmakers have given lip service to cutting fraud and waste for decades but did not give a rat’s heinie about actually doing anything. Musk and the DOGE team gave full credit to President Donald Trump and to his Cabinet for allowing this exploration and correction to happen…
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