Speaking in a Fox News interview aired before the Super Bowl football championship, Trump said the American people “want me to find” waste and that Musk, the world’s richest man and the leader of the president’s cost-cutting efforts, has been “a great help” in rooting out unnecessary spending.
During his three weeks in office the president has unleashed a flurry of executive orders aimed at slashing federal spending. He has appointed SpaceX and Tesla boss Musk to lead his federal cost-cutting efforts under the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Musk has already taken unprecedented steps to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID), laying off thousands of employees.
In the interview, Trump claimed there was “hundreds of millions of dollars of money that’s going to places where it shouldn’t be going.”
“Then I’m going to go to the military,“ Trump said, reiterating his call for a review of spending at the Pentagon, whose budget totals some $850 billion.
Since taking office, Trump has characterized billions of dollars in daily bilateral trade as a US “subsidy” and claimed without evidence that Canada would not be “a viable country” without it.
Both countries secured a one-month delay after the 11th-hour talks with Trump, but on Sunday the US leader warned what had been done so far was “not enough.”
‘Evisceration of democracy’
Asked whether he trusts Musk to fairly root out wasteful spending, Trump appeared to assert that the wealthy entrepreneur and his businesses are not benefiting financially through Musk’s work with DOGE.
Democrats have lined up to slam Trump’s various efforts, including Senator Chris Murphy, who on Sunday warned of an “assault on the Constitution” and said Trump was ushering in a “billionaire takeover of government.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, the top Republican in Congress, has repeatedly downplayed concerns that Trump is exceeding his authority or rushing too quickly to overhaul the federal government, including agencies like USAID.
The speaker described Musk as “an outside auditor” whose team is uncovering “incredible abuses of the public fisc,“ referring to the total amount of money a government has to spend.
“Everything there seems to cost too much, take too long and deliver too little to the soldiers,“ Waltz told NBC of Pentagon expenses.
En route to the Super Bowl, Trump flew over the Gulf of Mexico, which he has ordered renamed the “Gulf of America,“ and signed a proclamation recognizing February 9 as “Gulf of America Day.”
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