Elon Musk is putting your tax dollars back where they belong – potentially saving the country a whopping $150 billion next year alone. The tech titan, co-leading President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, dropped the bombshell during a White House cabinet meeting yesterday.
.@elonmusk announces that DOGE anticipates savings from cuts of waste and fraud totaling $150 billion. pic.twitter.com/IZ8lpaPRci
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) April 10, 2025
That $150 billion is just the start. Musk previously said he believes DOGE can sniff out and eliminate a staggering $1 trillion in government waste. It’s all part of Trump’s promise to drain the swamp and get federal spending under control. Musk himself compared the runaway deficit to a person maxing out credit cards – eventually, the bill comes due.
DOGE’s mission is simple: hunt down waste, fraud, and inefficiency baked into the federal bureaucracy and cut it out. Naturally, the swamp creatures aren’t happy. Reports have surfaced about DOGE using AI to monitor federal workers for “disloyalty” and some hiccups with termination notices at USAID, showing just how messy cleaning house can be.
But Musk and Ramaswamy are forging ahead, sending staffers into agencies like the FTC to push the cost-cutting agenda. While the usual suspects raise concerns about transparency and methods, taxpayers are likely cheering for someone finally taking an axe to bloated government budgets. Finding $150 billion is a heck of a good start.
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