Karoline Leavitt Defends Elon Musk and DOGE: ‘We’ve Been Incredibly Transparent, and Here Are the Receipts'

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12/2/2025

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00:00We're just wondering if there's some proof, evidence, is the White House willing to share

00:04evidence of those fraud claims, or can Elon Musk come to the briefing room and

00:07share material evidence of what he's talking about?

00:10Sure. I would love for Elon Musk to come to the briefing room. That's why we had him go to the

00:13Oval Office yesterday, where I think he provided great answers. He was speaking in layman's terms,

00:20speaking common sense to all of you in the media, but also to Americans at home. But I would say,

00:25especially to all of you in the media, because I think it's a real fallacy that there's this

00:29alleged lack of transparency when it comes to DOJ. President Trump and Elon Musk have been

00:35incredibly transparent on what DOJ is doing. There is an ex-account with the DOJ handle.

00:40They are tweeting out what they are doing on a daily basis. They have a website where they

00:44are posting the receipts of the contracts that they are reviewing and the payments that they

00:48have stopped from going out the door, the secretaries of our departments have stopped

00:53from going out the door. And I would also say that before it was Elon Musk making our government

00:59efficient and accountable, it was some unnamed bureaucrat that none of you knew. Elon Musk is

01:04the richest man in the world. He's also now one of the most highly scrutinized men in the world

01:08alongside President Trump because of what he's doing and the access that he is allowing. So

01:13there's great transparency. As for the actual receipts, we are happy to provide them. And I

01:18actually brought some today because all of you know I love to bring the receipts. We have contracts

01:23upon contracts that we can send and provide this information to you. Let me be very clear. We are

01:28not trying to hide anything. We have been incredibly transparent and we will continue to be.

01:33These are screenshots of contracts that DOJ found across our government. This is a DEI contract,

01:39$36,000 for U.S. citizenship and immigration services. That is against the President's

01:44policies and his America First agenda. This is a $3.4 million contract, a council for inclusive

01:51innovation at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, another DEI

01:57contract that DOJ identified. I can continue to go through these. Oh, I love this one, $57,000

02:03for climate change in Sri Lanka. What is this doing to continue the interests of the American

02:09people? Absolutely nothing. These are the line items across the federal government that DOJ is

02:15identifying daily. They're moving very fast. There's a lot of paper that we can show you,

02:19but we're happy to do it. This administration has been more than transparent about what DOJ is

02:25doing. And here's one of their tweets that they posted about the mine. I believe this is in

02:30Pennsylvania, where the federal employee retirement system is being processed. Did anybody know this

02:35was even happening in our country before Elon Musk talked about it in the Oval Office yesterday?

02:40A lot of Americans didn't. So we are providing transparency and accessibility on a daily basis

02:45when it comes to DOJ. And I also have a DOJ daily report, if anybody would like it, on all of the

02:51things that they are identifying and finding. We're happy to provide this information to you.

02:55We're talking about it every single day. Are all those things you just mentioned fraud,

02:59or are they waste, or are they just contrary to the President's policies?

03:02I would argue that all of these things are fraudulent, they are wasteful, and they are an

03:07abuse of the American taxpayer's dollar. This is not what the government should be spending money

03:12on. It's contrary to the President's priorities and agenda. And again, we can continue to provide

03:18you the receipts for all of the fraud, waste, and abuse. And if anybody in here wants to argue

03:23that the federal government is not fraudulent in some capacity, be my guest, because I think

03:28the American people watching at home would beg to differ.

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