President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk emphasised the function of “full transparency” in efforts to root out waste, fraud and abuse in an unique interview on “Hannity.”
“You already know what’s higher than saying ‘belief me’? It is simply full transparency. So what we’re doing with DOGE, simply go to DOGE.gov. You possibly can see each single motion that has been taken,” Musk instructed Fox Information host Sean Hannity throughout a section that aired Wednesday.
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Trump and Musk mentioned a spread of subjects throughout their wide-ranging interview, together with DOGE and the president’s first 100 days in workplace.
Trump tapped Musk to guide DOGE with the purpose of dismantling authorities forms, slashing laws, chopping wasteful spending and restructuring federal businesses.
“To me, it was vital for individuals to know he is doing a giant job. He is doing a really thankless job. It is actually a thankless job. However he is serving to us to save lots of our nation. Our nation is in deep trouble. And I needed to get the perfect man,” Trump stated.
Whereas the media has tried to painting a rivalry between Trump and Musk, the president additionally assured viewers “if there’s any battle, he’ll cease it. But when he did not, I might cease it.”
Since Trump took workplace, DOGE has focused a variety of bureaucratic arms, together with the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement, the USA Division of Well being and Human Providers and the USA Division of Schooling.Â
Latest DOGE actions, nevertheless, have been met with mounting scrutiny from many Democrats.
Musk responded to the critics, calling the response an “antibody response from those that are receiving the wasteful and fraudulent cash.”
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The Tesla founder did admit DOGE might make “some errors” and won’t be “excellent,” however he vowed to “repair the errors in a short time” to remain targeted on addressing the nation’s looming fiscal doomsday.Â
“If we do not clear up the deficit, there will not be cash for medical care, there will not be cash for Social Safety,” Musk stated. “We both clear up the deficit or all we’ll be doing is paying debt. It is acquired to be solved or there is not any medical care. There isn’t any Social Safety, there is not any nothing. It is acquired to be solved. It isn’t elective. America will go bankrupt if this isn’t performed.”
Musk added that “if the ship of America sinks, we’re all taking place with it.”Â
“This concept that folks can escape to New Zealand or another place is fake. If the central pillar of Western civilization, that’s America, falls, the entire roof comes crashing down, and there’s no escape,” he pressured.
The Trump administration has been vocal about balancing the finances by the tip of Trump’s second time period.Â
The president instructed Hannity the nation might see a balanced finances “doubtlessly in a short time” between DOGE cuts and earnings from tariffs and related financial insurance policies.Â
“We might do it in a short time. We might have by no means performed it if this did not occur. By no means. It could have by no means been. It could solely worsen and worse, and in the end it might have exploded. This nation was headed down a really dangerous monitor,” Trump stated.
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Fox Information Digital’s Louis Casiano, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
