U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects DOGE (Department of Government Efficience) to find billions of Dollars in fraud at the Pentagon during an audit leaded by Elon Musk’s DOGE, in the near future.
“I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. … Then I’m going to the military. Let’s check the military,” Trump said in a Super Bowl interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier.
“We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse,” Trump said of the largest federal department.
The Pentagon’s budget is approaching $1 trillion per year. In December, President Joe Biden signed a bill authorizing $895 billion in defense spending for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
President Trump requested DOGE-Elon Musk, to lead an effort to slash the size of the U.S. Government. As part of that initiative, access to confidential information which is paramount to this process of downsizing the government. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz suggested in a recent interview, that the Pentagon’s shipbuilding processes could be an area of particular interest for the Department of Government Efficiency, and he characterized the Pentagon in general as full of unnecessary bloat.
“Everything there seems to cost too much, take too long and deliver too little to the soldiers… We do need business leaders to go in there and absolutely reform the Pentagon’s acquisition process,” Waltz said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”“There is plenty to look into in shipbuilding, which is an absolute mess,” Waltz added.
Many Political Leaders have criticized the Pentagon’s waste and lack of efficiency. Democrats and civil service unions say Musk’s DOGE-Department of Government Efficiency is not equipped to restructure the Pentagon, and doing such will risk exposing classified programs, but we all know Elon Musks capacity and the idea to shrink government was always looking for this moment.
President Trump is following his promises and will deliver a better outcome to the inflated budget.
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source: AP, Fox, Reuters