- 5/30/2025
MUSK LEAVES HIS MARK: Tesla boss departs DOGE after slashing BILLIONS
Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk is making his exit from the Trump administration after a historic 130 days of cutting waste, fraud and abuse.
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00:00So how about this? Elon Musk is stepping down from Doge after months of leading the effort
00:04to cut billions of dollars in government waste. Musk announcing the move on X saying, quote,
00:11as my scheduled time as a special government employee comes to an end, I would like to thank
00:15President Donald Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The Doge mission
00:20will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.
00:25Lydia Moynihan is a financial correspondent for The New York Post and she joins me now.
00:29Lydia, good morning. It's great to see you. Great to be here. A whole lot to reflect on here.
00:33And Elon Musk has said that cutting government waste was a real uphill battle for him. So now
00:39that he's going to the private sector, how much did he actually accomplish? It really is the end
00:44of an era here. And of course, this is being spun. It's him basically stepping away from Trump in a
00:49reality. This is in line with what he always was planning to do. And I think it's interesting kind
00:53of watching the way that Elon Musk operates, right? This is his strategy where he goes into whether
00:58it's Tesla or Neuralink or X and basically impacts the organization as much as he can
01:03in a matter of 100 days or however long he plans to be there. That's how he's able to keep all of
01:09these different companies in check. And it's interesting when you speak with executives, they're very
01:13aware of the fact that anytime you step into an organization, there's really a window of a matter
01:18of months where you can impact change. And so we are looking at, you know, I think they stated
01:22publicly that they cut about 150 billion, which was below that estimated target. And yet you look
01:27at the impact that I think that will have when it actually comes to changing the way that each of
01:32these agencies and governments operate. I'll also note he has put folks in place who will continue
01:37that work even after he's left. And the goal, again, was really to get all of this done from when
01:43Trump was inaugurated and then next July. That's really the window they have. But that's when you're
01:48doing something, when you're trying to make radical change, you kind of have to do it quickly
01:51or otherwise it just gets stagnant. Yeah, man. Elon Musk sure is a change maker and he did do just
01:56that. According to Doge, estimated cuts $175 billion, which amounts to a little over $1,000
02:01per taxpayer, which is no small amount. So now the White House is sending some of the spending cuts
02:06to Congress to codify them, make them permanent. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?
02:11Yeah, that's always the challenge. Obviously, Elon Musk is a very impressive individual,
02:15but how do you get a body like Congress to agree to that? And I think that is where we're going to
02:20see sort of the rubber meet the road because you're looking at what they said, obviously very
02:24significant when you talk about saving taxpayer money. That's so critical. And yet you're also
02:29looking at these huge deficits that are going to continue. So that's Elon Musk, I think, has done
02:33his part, fair to say. And so now it really is up to Congress to think about making some of those
02:38bigger reforms. Yeah, no doubt. And OK, so we learned yesterday that Elon Musk is not a really big fan of
02:44the big beautiful bill. He said it could either be big or beautiful, but not both. Here is President
02:49Trump responding to that. Watch this. I'm not happy about certain aspects of it, but I'm thrilled by
02:56other aspects of it. That's the way they go. It's very big. It's the big beautiful bill. But the
03:01beautiful is because of all of the things we have. We're going to make people really be able to,
03:05we'll have one of the, we'll have the lowest tax rate we've ever had in the history of our country
03:10and tremendous amounts of benefit are going to the middle income people of our country, low and
03:15middle income people of our country. Yeah. So Elon Musk's criticism is that it adds to the deficit
03:21and undermines Doge's efforts. What do you think about that? And how much influence do those comments
03:27have over Congress? I mean, it's getting, it's getting negotiated in the Senate right now.
03:32Yeah. I mean, I think Elon Musk is aware that these entitlements really are costing the American
03:37taxpayer much more than the waste that he was focused on does. So to make that kind of reform
03:42where you are going to rein in the deficit, you will need to make those more dramatic cuts. And
03:47frankly, I don't know that congressional leaders who are elected every two years or those in the
03:51Senate every six years really have sort of the stamina or the courage to make those changes the
03:56way that Elon Musk did. Yeah. Well, somebody like Ron Johnson, who is concerned about the deficit,
04:01taking those comments from Elon Musk and running with them. So it's a fight in the Senate that we will
04:05certainly be watching. Lydia, thank you so much for joining us. Great to be here. Yeah. Great to see
04:08you. Well, Elon Musk says his time in the federal government is over announcing on X quote, as my
04:14scheduled time as a special government employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President
04:18Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The Doge mission will only strengthen
04:24over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government. Now, during Musk's time as the head of
04:30Doge, billions of dollars in government waste was slashed. Doge says that it's saved over $175
04:37billion since the start of Trump's term. And according to the department, when that's broken
04:42down by individual taxpayers, it is well over a thousand dollars each. So where was that money
04:49going in the first place? Musk revealed that a few million went towards maintaining, for example,
04:54an underground limestone mine to process federal retirement paperwork. Watch.
05:00All the retirement paperwork is manual on paper. It's manually calculated, then written down on a
05:07piece of paper. Then it goes down a mine. And like, what do you mean a mine? Like, yeah, there's a
05:12limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork. And you look at a picture of this mine,
05:19we'll post some pictures afterwards. And this mine looks like something out of the 50s because it was
05:24started in 1955. So it looks like it's like a time warp.
05:30And as for the rest of those billions, here's a taste of some more wasteful spending uncovered
05:35by Musk and his team.
05:38$520 million for a consultant on the environment. It's called environmental, social, and governance.
05:49investments in Africa. $25 million to promote biodiversity, conservation, and promote licit
05:58livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in the country of Colombia. Well, it's
06:04nice. $25 million to go into Colombia for something that nobody ever heard of. $10 million for
06:10Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcisions. $10 million for circumcisions in another country. $21
06:19million for voter turnout in India. $20 million for fiscal federalism in Nepal. We're talking about
06:27hundreds of billions of dollars. I could, I could, by the way, I could read this all day long.
06:33Joe Concha. Indeed, he could read it all day long. We have in our hands pages and pages, too. At the end of the day, the uproar by the mainstream media that mischaracterized, you know, that we were somehow taking away money from the mouths of babes when really we were putting money back into American taxpayers, taking a chainsaw to the bureaucracy.
06:55That's why the media is as trusted as gas station sushi at this point. Because here, this, these were some of the biggest stories day after day in terms of what Elon Musk and Doge was finding in our federal government. And most Americans, they agree with the mission of Doge as far as who could be possibly for waste, fraud, corruption. And if we lived in a sane and sober world, Elon Musk would be heralded as an unselfish hero who left very successful businesses to go into government to do a thank
07:25job of cutting all this spending. And instead, the media attacked him, smeared him. And then as a result, crazy people out there, firebombed Tesla dealerships, shot at Tesla dealerships in some situations. So I think ultimately, history will be kind to Elon Musk in terms of what he has done in this short period of time. The question is, does Congress and does the president, are they going to now actually give this money back to the American people through a Doge check or from actually cutting all these programs that
07:55Elon Musk has uncovered? And Kayleigh, I think, you know, to Joe's point, there is obviously a massive amount of line items that are shocking and also the butterfly effect. And what I mean by that is, for example, when Elon Musk shared with the public that because of a lack of requirement to have a line item for Treasury payments, $4.7 trillion in payments were untraceable. Wow. But they just went out there.
08:18So a small requirement had a massive impact that now, thanks to that requirement, will hopefully shut off the spigot moving forward.
08:26Yeah, as Elon Musk said, the Doge legacy will live on. And to Joe's point, I think you're spot on. I've written in my notes, Elon Musk had the ultimate thankless job.
08:35You're looking at the richest man in the world who signed up despite everything he has going on. SpaceX sending rockets into space, Neuralink and planting things in the minds of people with paralysis to help them in their lives.
08:49That's before you get to Tesla. He signed up for this job. And when you're the richest man in the world and you sign up to be on one side of the political aisle, you're going to get targeted.
08:57Not only that, he signed up for the worst job in the world. No one in Washington cut spending, not Republicans, not Democrats.
09:04Maybe they will with this big, beautiful bill. We'll see. But no one cut spending.
09:07He signed up to do the worst job despite the resume he had. And I thank him for that.
09:12But finally, I would say to your point about Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson said they do want to codify a lot of this.
09:18Don't want to get too nuanced, but it's discretionary spending, not mandatory.
09:21Exactly. So it won't be in the big, beautiful bill, but they are going to get a rescission package from the White House.
09:25So those will live on, hopefully, legislatively as well.
09:28Which was my question and tee up to Jerry. So talk to us about the codification, because that will be the only way to cement the legacy for the American people of Elon Musk.
09:37Well, and that's what's critical, right? You know how hard this job is when the most intelligent, accomplished human being in the country goes after it and can't get it done, right?
09:48Does not finish. I mean, his numbers are impressive, but we are a long way from wringing all the waste out of our government.
09:55And I think the major contribution of Elon and what I thank him for is that he shone a light on spending we had no idea was occurring.
10:05He showed us the degree to which legislators, regular folks on Capitol Hill, have absolutely no respect for taxpayer dollars.
10:13And that is the thing that sets me on fire. You know, that's my money.
10:18You've got to use it responsibly. And hopefully now, taking baby steps forward, we're going to be able to get closer to more consistent views on how to spend the American taxpayer dollar.
10:31It's critical we do it right.
10:32And up until Doge was created, you know, we had to open the books.
10:35We had Adam Andrzejewski's legacy. But the amplification of Elon Musk and obviously with the position, the creation of Doge helped really just shine that huge light.
10:45And I know, Rosanna, that today in The Washington Post, they had a line that I thought was funny where basically they were like,
10:50we wonder if Elon Musk has sort of grasped or perhaps is true that rocket science may be less difficult than politics.
10:58Challenging the status quo is never easy. Making disruptions is never easy.
11:03Don't forget, what did he make in 130 days going through all the facts and figures?
11:10He made zero. In fact, he's probably leaving this at a deficit.
11:16His Tesla stock in the, you know, not doing well, Jerry.
11:19Not doing well.
11:20Not doing well.
11:21Maybe now that he moves on, he can figure out his company.
11:24But let's face it. He all he wanted to do was cut the fat and do it quickly.
11:29Shine a light on some of these items that were our money was going toward.
11:34I mean, as someone who's lived in New York when the World Trade Center towers were attacked to find out a former Taliban member got one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars from us.
11:48Are you kidding?
11:50That contract was canceled as of March 31st.
11:53So these are some of the things Elon Musk did. And we thank him for, you know, just helping us with our hard earned dollars and not wasting them.
12:03Yeah, we were definitely funding the Taliban weekly and monthly to grotesque amounts.
12:07That's for sure. But yes. And I hope, by the way, final point, that the mainstream media stops saying that he's like leaving in disgrace for no reason when he's leaving because his contract was over.
12:16Yeah, exactly. But facts, you know, on Doge, we know that Elon Musk is leaving.
12:21Do you have an updated leadership structure for who is leading the group?
12:26Is rest vote involved? And what is its new mission now, if any?
12:30Well, the entire cabinet is involved. And I spoke to the president about it this morning.
12:34And the entire cabinet understands the need to cut government waste, fraud and abuse.
12:39And each cabinet secretary at their respective agencies is committed to that.
12:42That's why they were working hand in hand with Elon Musk.
12:45And they'll continue to work with the respective Doge employees who have onboarded as political appointees at all of these agencies.
12:51So surely the mission of Doge will continue.
12:54And many Doge employees are now political appointees and employees of our government.
12:59And to the best of my knowledge, all of them intend to stay and continue this important work.
13:04Is there a Doge leader taking the place of Mr. Musk?
13:06Well, again, the Doge leaders are each and every member of the president's cabinet and the president himself,
13:11who is wholeheartedly committed to cutting waste, fraud and abuse from our government.
13:15My Tim accountable with me now is Kevin O'Leary, chairman of O'Leary Ventures and Kennedy, host of the Kennedy Saves the World podcast.
13:25Guys, I want to get from each of you your kind of top line thoughts as Elon Musk sails off into the sunset of what you think his best achievements were.
13:35You first, Kevin.
13:36Bringing the whole idea of a different kind of audit into the psyche of bipartisan taxpayers.
13:44Doge is a good idea.
13:45It just is.
13:46Auditing the government under any administration is a good idea.
13:49And trying to make it more efficient is a good idea.
13:52Now, one thing everybody learns, and I'm including myself in this statement, is you don't understand Washington until you go there.
13:59It is a very nasty, nasty place.
14:02I don't know what you're talking about.
14:03And anybody that exposes themselves that close to the sun is going to burn some feathers.
14:11And I think he experienced that and realized he did some great things.
14:14But there's other great things that he's doing, including, you know, I'm a shareholder in Tesla.
14:18I'd like to see him a little focused on that.
14:20He's getting back to that as well.
14:22But I don't think what he did was bad at all.
14:25He didn't get near a trillion dollars of savings.
14:27And Elizabeth Warren, you know, parting card is why Washington is nasty.
14:34You're going to get exposed to that.
14:35You need thick skin.
14:36And I think he understands that now.
14:38I think he did a great job.
14:40Kennedy, take a quick listen to Dana Bash on CNN.
14:42Let's do it.
14:43Was it really about just cutting waste, fraud and abuse?
14:48No.
14:49I mean, it just wasn't.
14:50It was about making some specific cuts, ideological cuts, cultural, places where they had cultural differences.
14:59What do you make of it?
15:02I mean, she's right in the sense that everything this president does, policy-wise, is ideological, as is every president.
15:10And everything the Democrats do in terms of spending is also ideological.
15:16And it sounds like she's carrying water and delivering talking points for the Democratic establishment, which has not served her or CNN very well.
15:25I mean, Jake Tapper's doing fine because he's now telling tales about Democrats' cultural and media failure.
15:33So, I guess, good for him.
15:36Kevin is absolutely right.
15:37This is so incredibly necessary because we are going to drown under the weight of the payments that we will owe on the debt that we're continuing to rack up.
15:49And unless we stop just heaping money on these vanity projects for lawmakers in both parties.
15:58Because, yes, Washington is mean and evil, but it's also filled with people who are addicted to power and votes.
16:04And they tie that with government spending and what they can give to their constituents.
16:09And they're not going to be the ones who stop the spending.
16:11But, at least now, Democrats who have short memories can go back to buying Teslas again.
16:16Kevin, I know that you hate to go political.
16:19So, I'm obviously going to ask you a politically-minded question now.
16:22Which is, you say the economy is on fire.
16:26We've never been better.
16:27Do you attribute that solely to the last four months?
16:31Who owns this bounteous period?
16:34So, let me deal with your first statement.
16:36I don't deal with politics because I don't make any money with politics.
16:39I make money with policy, so I only care about policy.
16:42I don't mind that this president and this administration has this unique attribute of doing everything as sausages being made with a camera there.
16:52This is unique.
16:53Trump doesn't care.
16:55So, if you're watching sausage being made with all of this volatility just around the tariff narrative,
17:00he stretched and pushed the powers of the executive up against the courts.
17:05He doesn't care.
17:06And they push back.
17:07He doesn't care.
17:08What matters is, where are we policy-wise?
17:11The market is now back near its highs.
17:14The economy, almost full employment.
17:17We are killing it in tech, where I'm an investor.
17:20I'm very, very happy.
17:21And yet, the market's starting to figure out what really Trump is doing is getting us to a reciprocal tariff,
17:27maybe around 10% by the time we get to the midterms.
17:30That's kind of the vibe in the market right now.
17:32And no administration has ever tried to negotiate 60 trade deals at once.
17:38That's never been done.
17:40And so, obviously, now with these pushbacks from the courts and the appeals and yada, yada, woof, woof, woof,
17:45it's going to be a little slower.
17:46But have you noticed Japan, Canada, the EU, India still talking?
17:51They know Trump's not going to stop.
17:54He's a bulldog.
17:55He's just going to keep coming after him with tariffs.
17:56So they haven't dropped their negotiating teams in Washington.
17:59That goes on as we speak.
18:01Kennedy, you get the last 10 seconds.
18:03I am very hopeful that the president sends the rescission package to Congress,
18:08and they make good on the $9.4 billion in cuts that he is seeking.
18:14And I hope they find their spines and cut even more because government is too big,
18:19it's too cumbersome, it's too expensive, and that just squashes the middle class.
18:23This is your whole raison d'etre.
18:25Absolutely right, Jillian.
18:26And thank you for using your beautiful French.
18:29Well, as Kevin likes to say, yada, yada, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.
18:34It's yada, yada, yada, woof, woof, woof.
18:36Woof, woof.
18:36All right, I'm going to practice.
18:37I'll nail it by next time.
18:39Thanks, guys.
18:40Hi, I'm Greg Gutfeld along with Eveline Campagno.
18:43Jessica Tarloff, Jesse Watters, and she wants to be buried in a hot dog bun.
18:47Gana Perino, The Five.
18:55This is the Chainsaw for Bureaucracy.
18:59What do you think of my hat?
19:03I wear a lot of hats.
19:05I thought my son might enjoy this, but he's sticking his fingers in my ears.
19:08Hubble tech support here.
19:09Who's big balls?
19:11It's me.
19:13That should be obvious.
19:17The Doge Daddy is gone and done.
19:20Elon Musk announcing his departure from D.C.
19:22and thanking President Trump with an announcement on X where he said, quote,
19:25the Doge mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.
19:31Musk saving over $175 billion since the start of Trump's term and is getting honest about seeing that mission continue.
19:38I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the Doge team is doing.
19:52Musk learning a few lessons from his time in the swamp.
19:54He told the Washington Post, quote, the federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realize.
20:00The billionaire also lamenting how Doge became D.C.'s whipping boy after the left turned on him and started torching Teslas.
20:07But now the Dems are left without their favorite scapegoat.
20:10When Trump came in and Doge and Elon Musk began firing key safety officials for the FAA, began laying off key personnel,
20:20one of the biggest issues right now is a personnel issue in addition to the technology issues.
20:24Trump and Musk are just eroding the American dream.
20:30They're rigging the system for billionaires while stealing from the elderly, from the disabled, to cut taxes for their billionaire club.
20:38They are dead now at the hands of Elon Musk and his co-conspirators.
20:45So, Jessica, we know that if the debt is not addressed within the next few years, we will probably face an economic collapse.
20:54Some will call it an economic heart attack.
20:58We'll have a weak dollar, hyperinflation, rising interest rates.
21:02And yet it was sobering to watch the Democrats root against Musk and Doge when they know that if he fails, there will be economic collapse.
21:12So I ask you, what is a Democrat solution for this coming crisis?
21:17If you if you weren't fine with Doge or Elon Musk, what is your solution, young lady, if I may call you that?
21:24I mean, I'm 41, but I like to think of myself as young.
21:28Our solution is a Democratic redux from the 90s where you have a Doge master and it could be Elon Musk that gets together and works with the administration and also works with Congress and does all of this.
21:40But why was this one wrong?
21:42Well, because he took the proverbial chainsaw.
21:45Then a lot of times the courts had to overrule him.
21:47And frankly, the GOP wasn't interested in codifying any of his cuts.
21:51That's the problem.
21:52And we know that they're they're they're wrong for that.
21:55But I'm asking you what what was wrong with what he did?
21:58Well, because he wasn't paying attention to what he was cutting, which is why they had to reinstate all these people from the folks who work for the weather services to the nuclear scientists.
22:07Just kind of woke up and started slashing things or sent baby big balls out there and they didn't know what they were doing.
22:12And it's going to turn out that only nine billion dollars of the hundred and seventy five billion that he originally touted, which was supposed to be two trillion, are actually going to be in this reconciliation package.
22:22And what the Democrats are arguing and what I think you couldn't deny is that it's reckless at this moment to ram through trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy when you haven't cut any of the spending, which is why Ron Johnson right now is a no.
22:35Rand Paul is a no.
22:36And they don't have the numbers for this.
22:38And I'm not saying that the Democrats are going to get Elon Musk back.
22:41Right.
22:41But he's so clearly disappointed talking about the reconciliation bill and the work that he's done.
22:47And also Tesla's out there now tweeting, saying you can't do these cuts that get rid of the energy tax incentives because we're going to the grid is going to be smashed as a result of it.
22:58And we're going to lose our energy independence.
23:00So I'm campaigning for you, Elon.
23:01We only talked for a little while when you were on the show, but we'll take you back and we could doge the right way together.
23:08So it was just not the right way.
23:10The process was wrong.
23:11But they were 100 percent behind it, guys.
23:13What say you, Jesse?
23:15You know, Jessica is laughing that he's gone, but it's like laughing at a funeral.
23:19The Democrats funeral.
23:21Your party's dead, Jessica.
23:22What?
23:22And you basically pushed the world's wealthiest man into our arms.
23:28You took.
23:28And now he's running from you.
23:30He went on one date.
23:31Wait, no.
23:32This is the day that he was supposed to leave.
23:34Yeah, he's supposed to leave tomorrow.
23:35180 days.
23:36How do I know that?
23:36And you don't.
23:37It's 130.
23:37Listen, you now made Elon Musk the Republican Party's biggest donor.
23:45Thank you very much.
23:46You think he's just going to stop giving?
23:48He said I'm stopping.
23:49OK, I've heard that before.
23:50They're going to give.
23:50You think he's not giving to Vance?
23:52After what you did to him, you think he's just going to bury the hatchet?
23:56After you called him a Nazi?
23:58After you bombed his cars, you think the next election is going to be like, all right, you know what?
24:02Let the Democrats get back in there, because what do you think the Democrats are going to do when they get back in?
24:07They're going to go all in and try to put the man in prison.
24:11They're going to try to bankrupt his companies and investigate the hell out of him.
24:14You think he's not going to give anymore?
24:16You are an I'm not going to say the word idiot, but you've made a huge mistake and you don't realize how dumb it is.
24:24Also, you're saying how much you need men.
24:27Young men idolize Elon Musk.
24:30They want to be him.
24:31They want to be based.
24:32They want to ride around in his trucks and they want to hang with big balls.
24:36And now every time you attack Elon Musk, you're attacking all of the young men that you need for your party to survive.
24:43You're attacking a living legend.
24:46We're talking Rockefeller, Ford, Jobs.
24:50Who's against him?
24:51Booker?
24:52He's a footnote.
24:54Liz Warren?
24:55What has she ever done?
24:56This man's expanding civilization.
24:59He's cut spending.
25:02He's actually found fraud.
25:05You've never found it, Jessica.
25:07And while he was doing that, he rescued astronauts that they then mocked while they praised Katy Perry.
25:13Yeah.
25:13No one praised Katy Perry, to be clear.
25:16He's like, she didn't look great that shot.
25:19He's juggling like heroic acts and you guys are chirping at him for the silence.
25:24You had your chance.
25:25You didn't cut spending.
25:26You didn't find fraud.
25:27You made Kamala Harris the AI czar, Jessica.
25:30This is like you're upset because he set a $2 trillion goal and didn't hit it.
25:35Okay.
25:35He ended up with $9 billion.
25:36He did more than you did.
25:38He did more than anyone has ever done in about three decades, Jessica.
25:42This is like a fan.
25:44Every NFL season.
25:45Just let someone else talk.
25:46No.
25:49Every NFL season, every single team tries to win the Super Bowl.
25:53That's the goal.
25:54They don't all win the Super Bowl.
25:56But you're like on the side like, ah, you tried to win the Super Bowl and you didn't win.
26:00You're not even playing.
26:02You're not even on the field.
26:04You're on the sidelines eating chicken.
26:07Chicken, you say?
26:08Chicken.
26:09So, Emily, now that Jesse is paused, what do you think about the fact that he left when he said he would,
26:18which you never see with politicians.
26:20He doesn't linger like one of Swalwell's farts in an elevator.
26:23He said, I did my job.
26:25I made this a way of life.
26:27See you later.
26:28Well, also, he was compliant with the statute, right?
26:30So, we knew he had to leave at that time, which is why when the mainstream media crows,
26:35oh, he's being chased out of D.C., that's not at all what's happening.
26:39He came in for a certain amount of time, fulfilled his duties, and then left.
26:42He did cut spending.
26:43I mean, he found $4.7 trillion by the Treasury that because he didn't have to do a line item,
26:49literally overnight that spigot was turned off because all of a sudden there had to be accountability.
26:54And I think about, you know, the reality that it's so simple to slash all of this spending
26:58and all of this waste, fraud, and abuse, but the complexity was in the execution,
27:03was in the selling, because at every step of the way, all of these Democrats and all
27:07of these liberals, they just inherited a system, and that was why they accepted it.
27:12Like, it matters about the title, not the actual productivity, right?
27:16You take the Social Security Administration.
27:17That's where I worked as a federal attorney in part.
27:20In one year, there were overpayments of $23 billion.
27:23But the Dems at the time were like, well, that's just 1% of the whole budget, so who cares?
27:28And it's that kind of thinking that is so destructive instead of saying, we do care
27:32because it's death by a thousand cuts, because economic catastrophe is the next logical step
27:37if you keep throwing away other people's money.
27:40So at the end of the day, when people who complain about the DMV think that that's not
27:45this on the larger scale, we have pundits right now saying, oh, he fired everyone that
27:49inspects our food, and that doesn't, no, he didn't.
27:52That's, again, them inheriting the system, so automatically ascribing value, when the
27:56reality was all of that bloat, all of it needed to be bloat, needed to be exploded.
28:02And the only person that could do it was him through the algorithms.
28:04That's what Speaker Johnson said today.
28:05He said the bureaucracy was hiding it.
28:07That's why you can't do it the legal, boring way.
28:10Yeah.
28:10You didn't say boring.
28:11I did say legal, though, which we should aspire to.
28:14Yes.
28:14Dana, I do find it, I think the thing that bugs me the most about it is he was doing
28:20something that was widely popular among the American public and still is, and yet the Democrats
28:26and the media attacked him for it.
28:29It's like you talk about public service.
28:31He's not a politician.
28:32He didn't have to do this.
28:33Right.
28:34I absolutely think that the long-term legacy of Elon Musk in this period of his life,
28:38maybe forever, will be complicated because one thing that is wonderful is to go back
28:45to actually being willing to have this conversation about overspending, right?
28:49Like we're having the conversation.
28:51We're just not getting to the solutions, but we're getting to the root of it, which is that
28:54because Republicans and Democrats will not deal with the long-term problems of the entitlement
29:01programs and just making them work better, right?
29:06I'm not talking about cutting anyone's benefits, but making them work better for the people who
29:10deserve it until we're willing to deal with that.
29:13Like Stephen Miller the other day when he posted that there's discretionary spending and there's
29:17non-discretionary spending and you can't do anything about this.
29:19Well, if you wall off that part of the budget, then you're never going to get to this.
29:23But I do think they can keep Doge going in a way, well, they're going to with Russ Vogt
29:26over at the Office of Management and Budget.
29:28One of the things we haven't talked about a lot is that I know that the money fell short
29:33of the waste, fraud, and abuse that they said they could find.
29:37But improving the technology at a lot of these places would be amazing.
29:42Do you remember the computers that had a green screen?
29:45That's the kind of stuff that some of the agencies were still using.
29:48That is extremely useful and I think an exciting thing.
29:51But I also feel like for Musk, I like what John Ekdahl said on X.
29:55He said that Musk really went through this Republican Party experience.
29:58You have this euphoric victory, you have grand sweeping plans, you complete governing
30:03incompetence, and then you have political disillusionment.
30:07You're like, oh yeah, that wasn't so great.
30:09And he's right.
30:09It can be big.
30:11It can be beautiful.
30:11It doesn't know if it can be both at the same time.
30:13It will get done.
30:14But until we as a country actually deal with the non-discretionary issue, we will not be
30:21able to reduce the deficit.
30:22Well said, young lady.
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