The US president claims Doge will save hundreds of millions of dollars without cutting medical and welfare benefits.
US President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk defended their drastic cost-cutting drive in a joint interview where two men laved their lavish rav slump with praise.
In an interview with Fox News that aired Tuesday, Trump tapped his mask to lead the so-called Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE) because someone wanted to do a “really smart” job .
“I respect him. I’ve always respected him. I didn’t know he was right in certain things, and I’m usually pretty good at things like this. He’s I did a star link, he did something very advanced, and no one knew what they were,” Trump said, referring to Mask’s satellite internet service, Fox News. told Sean Hannity, host of the film.
Trump said Musk and his “100 Geniuses” ensure that his executive order was implemented to avoid the experiences of past administrations who were unhappy with bureaucracy. Ta.
“He has some very amazing young people who actually wear clothes that are far worse than he does and work for him. They’re just wearing t-shirts. They’re 180 IQ You don’t know you have that,” Trump said.
Musk was in turn praised by Trump.
“I love the president and I want to be clear about that,” Musk said. “I think President Trump is a good guy.”
“The president is being attacked very unfairly in the media, and that’s really outrageous,” continued the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.
“At this point I spent a lot of time with the President and never saw him doing anything wrong, mean or cruel. Not once.”
The two men also laughed at the critic’s suggestion that Musk had taken Trump’s authority as president.
“In fact, Elon called me. He said, ‘You know they’re trying to pull us apart.” I said, ‘Absolutely,'” Trump said.
“You know, they said, “We’re breaking the news. Donald Trump has handed over control of the presidency to Elon Musk. President Musk attended the Cabinet meeting tonight at 8am. And I said, “That’s so obvious.” People are smart, they get it. ”
Musk’s Doge has overseen fires from around 20,000 federal employees so far, and has allocated more than 200,000 more for firing.
Critics put American privacy at risk by Musk acting without legal authority, invincible reductions in government functions without proper consideration, and seeking access to sensitive data such as taxpayer information. He accuses him of exposing him.
Also, concerns have been raised about the South African-born billionaire’s impact on the government, given that he has not held an elected position.
In an interview Tuesday, Trump found Doge to find “thousands of billions of dollars” of savings without cutting Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits despite programs that make up nearly half of government spending He insisted that he could do it.
“It will be strengthened – but it won’t touch. Medicare, Medicaid – none of that stuff can be touched,” he said.