WATCH: Elon Musk, DOGE Team Provide Behind-The-Scenes Look At Cost-Cutting Efforts
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on March 27, 2025
By Cullen McCue
Elon Musk and a number of staffers working with the Trump Administration’s efforts to reduce wasteful government spending, commonly referred to as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), provided an inside look at the team’s efforts in an interview with Fox News.
“We want to reduce spending by eliminating waste and fraud and reduce the spending by 15 percent, which seems really quite achievable,” Musk told “Special Report” host Bret Baier. “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.”
While DOGE lacks the ability to make cuts without congressional approval, the team has recommended billions-of-dollars in cuts without touching Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Several cuts made by DOGE will be finalized as a result of the recently signed budget resolution.
The budget measure will provide roughly $4.5 trillion in tax cuts with a goal of $2 trillion in spending cuts. It will also allocate roughly $100 billion in additional funding on immigration enforcement and defense spending. In addition, the legislation requires the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in cuts to federal programs.
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