Leavitt ROASTS Reporter Over Musk Trump Team Exit; Shuts Down Trump vs. Musk Rumors Over Trade Bill

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00:00Elon Musk and they'll continue to work with the respective Doge employees who

00:04have onboarded as political appointees at all of these agencies. The president

00:08commented on this, I commented on it, I told you that this bill saves 1.6

00:13trillion dollars according to the Council of Economic Advisers and the

00:16analyses that the president believes in. So he gave a comment, I give a comment

00:20just because you don't like that comment doesn't mean it's not a comment. So

00:23surely the mission of Doge will continue and many Doge employees are now

00:27political appointees and employees of our government and to the best of my

00:31knowledge all of them intend to stay and continue this important work.

00:35President Trump was asked what he thought about Elon Musk's claim that the big

00:39beautiful bill increases the budget deficit and undermines the work of Doge and

00:45the president didn't actually comment on those remarks he just talked about the

00:49need to support the bill so what does the president think about what Elon Musk said?

00:54Well the president is very proud of the one big beautiful bill and he wants to see

00:58it pass he wants the Senate to get to work on it and send it to his desk as

01:02quickly as possible. Of course as you know Elon Musk announced last night his

01:06departure as an official special government employee from the Trump

01:09administration we thank him for his service we thank him for getting Doge off

01:13of the ground and the efforts to cut waste fraud and abuse will continue.

01:17So he doesn't have any comment about Musk saying it adds to the deficit and it

01:22undermines all his work? The president commented on this I commented on it I

01:26told you that this bill saves 1.6 trillion dollars according to the Council of

01:31Economic Advisors and the analyses that the president believes in so he gave a

01:35comment I give a comment just because you don't like that comment doesn't mean

01:38it's not a comment. Elon Musk is leaving do you have an updated leadership

01:42structure for who is leading the group is rest vote involved and what is its new

01:47mission now if any? Well the entire cabinet is involved and I spoke to the

01:52president about it this morning and the entire cabinet understands the need to cut

01:56government waste fraud and abuse and each cabinet secretary at their respective

02:00agencies is committed to that that's why they were working hand-in-hand with Elon

02:03Musk and they'll continue to work with the respective Doge employees who have

02:07onboarded as political appointees at all of these agencies. So surely the

02:11mission of Doge will continue and many Doge employees are now political

02:15appointees and employees of our government and to the best of my

02:19knowledge all of them intend to stay and continue this important work. Is there a

02:23Doge leader taking the place of Mr. Musk? Well again the Doge leaders are each and

02:27every member of the president's cabinet and the president himself who is

02:30wholeheartedly committed to cutting waste fraud and abuse from our government.

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