Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., seems to be in favor of the newly-established Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), after slamming the Pentagon’s price range and failed audits on social media and admitting, “Elon Musk is true.”
President-elect Trump tapped Musk and former GOP presidential main candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to guide DOGE in an effort to cease the federal government’s wasteful spending.
Sanders addressed the wasteful spending on Sunday in a put up on X.
“Elon Musk is true,” he wrote. “The Pentagon, with a price range of $886 billion, simply failed its seventh audit in a row. It’s misplaced monitor of billions. Final yr, solely 13 senators voted towards the Army Industrial Advanced and a protection price range stuffed with waste and fraud. That should change.”
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Musk responded to Sanders’ put up with two American flags.
Sanders didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
The put up comes as Musk continues to bash authorities spending on social media.
For instance, he shared a put up from DOGE’s X account in regards to the California Excessive Velocity Rail Undertaking, which was projected in 2008 to price $33 billion, and now could be projected to be between $88.5 and $127.9 billion. The put up additionally mentioned the estimated completion date was 2020 and, as of 2024, no person has been transported and nearly all of the railway has not been designed. The challenge obtained $6.8 billion in federal funding. The challenge crew is now requesting one other $8 billion in federal funds.
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A side-by-side of Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk. (AP Photographs)
Musk wrote in a repost, “The federal government must cease losing your hard-earned cash!”
In one other put up shared by Musk, he’s seen talking in entrance of an American flag.
“The curiosity that we owe on our nationwide debt is now larger than the protection price range. Over a trillion {dollars} and rising. The nation goes to go bankrupt,” he mentioned. “That’s why we’d like the division of Authorities Effectivity, D.O.G.E., on a brass plaque on a desk.”
Even final week, Musk mentioned a major share of individuals don’t even know there’s such a factor as a nationwide debt.
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Congress is racing to be able to execute the suggestions of Trump’s new DOGE fee. (Getty Photographs)
“People who do typically don’t know the way massive it’s or that our curiosity funds now exceed what we spend on our army. Solely a small % perceive that authorities overspending causes inflation,” he mentioned on X.
The nationwide debt has soared previous $36 trillion.
“America goes bankrupt quick,” Musk warned in one other put up.
“The surplus authorities spending is what causes inflation! ALL authorities spending is taxation. It is a crucial idea to understand. It’s both direct taxation, like earnings tax, or oblique by way of inflation attributable to rising the cash provide,” he asserted in a tweet earlier this month.
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Trump mentioned in an announcement that DOGE “will present recommendation and steering from exterior of presidency and can companion with the White Home and Workplace of Administration & Finances to drive large-scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial strategy to authorities by no means seen earlier than.”
In a Wall Avenue Journal opinion piece, Musk and Ramaswamy famous that they’ll work “as exterior volunteers, not federal officers or staff.”
Fox Information Digital’s Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
