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We’re going to find billions, hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud and abuse,
Trump said of the largest federal department in an interview with Fox News, an excerpt of which was aired on Sunday morning Everything there seems to cost too much, take too long and deliver too little to the soldiers… We do need business leaders to go in there and absolutely reform the Pentagon’s acquisition process,
Waltz said in an interview with NBC News The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends, he can punish his political enemies,
I'm going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. ... Then I'm going to go, go to the military. Let's check the military,
Trump said in a Super Bowl interview with Fox News' Brett Baier, an excerpt of which was aired on Sunday morning (Feb 9) There is plenty to look into in shipbuilding, which is an absolute mess,
Waltz said in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press There is a huge problem of the government being able to supervise these contractors carefully enough to be able to make sure we’re getting our money’s worth,
Don Kettl, an expert on government administration and former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, told TIME Improper payments and fraud are long-standing and significant problems in the federal government,
House testimony from the Government Accountability Office in September said I've instructed him to go check out Education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military and, you know, sadly you'll find some things that are pretty bad, but I don't think proportionately you're going to see anything like we just saw,
Trump declared, according to USA Today 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 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 Why does DOGE need all of that?"
I will pick out a target, and I say, 'Go in,'
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,
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,
