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This result was not a surprise, and I know that on the surface it doesn't sound like we're making progress. However, that is not the case,
Michael McCord, the DoD's comptroller and CFO said per CFO Have you directed Elon Musk to review Pentagon spending?"
A reporter asked Trump at a briefing Friday Sadly, you’ll find some things that are pretty bad, but I don’t think proportionally you’ll see anything like we just saw,
the president added, referencing USAID, where the Trump administration has placed nearly the entire staff on leave They’ll ask questions, and they’ll see immediately … that they’re either crooked or don’t know what they’re doing,
We need the best systems in the hands of war fighters,
Well, I don't know about the particular thing, but if the Vice President said that,
the president responded when asked about Elez's resignation I'll tell him to go here, go there. He does it. He's got a very capable group of people, very, very, very, very capable. They know what they're doing,
Why does DOGE need all of that?"
I will pick out a target, and I say, 'Go in,'
There’s a lot of programs around here that we spend a lot of money on that, when you actually war game it, don’t have the impact you want them to,
We're going to be looking at Department of Education. We're going to be looking at even our military. We're going to be looking at tremendous amounts of money ... being spent on things that bear no relationship to anything and have no value,
There's nothing of value to anybody unless there's a kickback scheme going on, which is possible,
We have very smart people going in, so I've instructed him go into education, go into military, go into other things as we go along, and they're finding massive amounts of fraud, abuse, waste, all of these things,
Pentagon, Education, just about everything. We’re going to go through everything,
Trump said during a presser alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba