The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is making for some odd bedfellows.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has long railed against billionaires, vouched for Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and co-leader of DOGE — in the hopes of a defense spending crackdown.
“Elon Musk is right,” Sanders said on X.
Elon Musk is right.
The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions.
Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.
That must change.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 1, 2024
“The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions,” he added. “Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.”
Sanders concluded: “That must change.”
The post garnered all sorts of buzz, including from Musk’s America PAC.
“Sensible spending is not a partisan issue,” the PAC said. “The general public supports [DOGE] holding government accountable to spend taxpayer money more wisely.”
President-elect Donald Trump picked Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head DOGE and come up with a plan to reform government and cut down on waste.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining DOGE’s aspirations, Musk and Ramaswamy mentioned how the Department of Defense had just failed its seventh audit in a row.
“The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency’s leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent,” they wrote.
Further insight could be gleaned from their exchanges on X over the past couple of weeks.
In one post, Ramaswamy said, “We need to strengthen our military by focusing on the *effectiveness* of our defense spending, rather than just reflexively increasing the magnitude.”
Musk replied by saying that DOGE “will improve the efficiency of Defense spending.”
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Last week, Ramaswamy said: “Yes, it’s true that cutting bureaucracy will reduce the federal deficit, but the real win will be its pro-growth effect. The biggest cost of bureaucracy isn’t the headcount costs, it’s that bureaucrats find legally dubious ‘things to do’ that stifle freedom & depress our economy.”
“Exactly,” Musk replied. “In a meeting with senior military officers today, they told me that it now takes longer to renovate stairs (24 months) in the Pentagon than it took to build the WHOLE Pentagon (16 months) in the 1940s!!”
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is making for some odd bedfellows.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has long railed against billionaires, vouched for Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and co-leader of DOGE — in the hopes of a defense spending crackdown.
“Elon Musk is right,” Sanders said on X.
Elon Musk is right.
The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions.
Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.
That must change.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 1, 2024
“The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions,” he added. “Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.”
Sanders concluded: “That must change.”
The post garnered all sorts of buzz, including from Musk’s America PAC.
“Sensible spending is not a partisan issue,” the PAC said. “The general public supports [DOGE] holding government accountable to spend taxpayer money more wisely.”
President-elect Donald Trump picked Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head DOGE and come up with a plan to reform government and cut down on waste.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining DOGE’s aspirations, Musk and Ramaswamy mentioned how the Department of Defense had just failed its seventh audit in a row.
“The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency’s leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent,” they wrote.
Further insight could be gleaned from their exchanges on X over the past couple of weeks.
In one post, Ramaswamy said, “We need to strengthen our military by focusing on the *effectiveness* of our defense spending, rather than just reflexively increasing the magnitude.”
Musk replied by saying that DOGE “will improve the efficiency of Defense spending.”
CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
Last week, Ramaswamy said: “Yes, it’s true that cutting bureaucracy will reduce the federal deficit, but the real win will be its pro-growth effect. The biggest cost of bureaucracy isn’t the headcount costs, it’s that bureaucrats find legally dubious ‘things to do’ that stifle freedom & depress our economy.”
“Exactly,” Musk replied. “In a meeting with senior military officers today, they told me that it now takes longer to renovate stairs (24 months) in the Pentagon than it took to build the WHOLE Pentagon (16 months) in the 1940s!!”
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