Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have already terminated numerous DEI-related contracts worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
But DOGE is just getting started.
And all hell broke loose after Elon Musk made this bold prediction about DOGE spending cuts.
Despite Democrats’ best efforts to stop them, Elon Musk and the DOGE team are busy uncovering billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse to cut from the federal government.
On Monday, DOGE announced that more than 200,000 credit cards linked to 16 different federal agencies had been deactivated after an audit determined they were unneeded or unused.
“Weekly Credit Card Update! Pilot program with 16 agencies to audit unused/unneeded credit cards,” DOGE wrote on X. “After 3 weeks, >200,000 cards have been de-activated. Great progress this past week by @HHSGov @Interior.”
But the work is far from over according to DOGE.
“As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do,” DOGE wrote.
Weekly Credit Card Update!
Pilot program with 16 agencies to audit unused/unneeded credit cards. After 3 weeks, >200,000 cards have been de-activated. Great progress this past week by @HHSGov @Interior
As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active… pic.twitter.com/xZaZJ51AOV
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 11, 2025
According to its website, as of March 5, DOGE had already saved taxpayers $405 billion, or roughly $652 per taxpayer.
During Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, Musk said his goal is to find $1 trillion worth of spending to cut in order to help bring down the national debt.
“If this continues, the country will go, become de facto bankrupt,” Musk said.
On Monday, Musk appeared for an interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network to discuss the latest from DOGE.
Musk explained the process DOGE uses to find the waste, fraud, and abuse.
“We look at the President’s executive orders, and we also just follow the money,” he said. “So we started looking closely at USAID because they were completely violating the President’s executive orders to suspend foreign aid.”
He said non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are “the biggest sources of fraud in the world.”
“This is a gigantic fraud loophole where the government can give money to an NGO, and then there are no controls over that NGO,” he said.
Kudlow asked Musk about working with the Cabinet secretaries to streamline their departments.
“You are working with the agencies you are working with the Cabinet secretaries, I heard Howard Lutnick was on TV yesterday saying you are partnering with them, is that fair?” Kudlow asked.
Musk said he viewed DOGE as playing more of a consultant role.
“What we do is in consultation with the Cabinet secretaries and with their departments,” he said.
“So we’re really trying to be, sort of refer to ourselves as tech support, we’re really helping the department get a handle on things, because what actually happens here is you’ve got this sort of vast federal bureaucracy, and then you’ve got a very thin layer on top of the politically-appointed officials,” he continued. “And what has happened is that the bureaucracy, frankly, is in control, and they largely ignore the politically-appointed people.”
In response to the Democrats throwing a hissy fit, Musk said all he is trying to do is “make government more efficient” and “eliminate waste and fraud.”
Musk added that DOGE is saving taxpayers more than $4 billion per day.
Kudlow asked Musk about his goal of finding $1 trillion in spending to cut.
“You think you’ll wind up getting to a trillion dollars?” he asked Musk.
Musk answered in the affirmative.
“Yeah, unless we’re stopped, we’ll get to $1 trillion in savings,” he responded.
🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk says DOGE will achieve $1 TRILLION in savings “unless we’re stopped.”
“Savings at this point exceed $4 billion PER DAY,” per @elonmusk
We the people have your back, Elon. Keep pushing!
DOGE is overwhelming popular among the American people (per… pic.twitter.com/yo0IL9KTPc
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 10, 2025
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