Elon Musk Says DOGE ‘Must Be Over Target’ If Dems Are Losing Their Minds Over Trump Admin Cuts
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk said Tuesday evening on Fox News that his team “must be over the target” for Democrats to be so upset about their efforts to address government waste within the…
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk said Tuesday evening on Fox News that his team “must be over the target” for Democrats to be so upset about their efforts to address government waste within the Trump administration.
Democrat lawmakers began protesting in Washington, D.C., after Musk announced on an X space discussion Feb. 3 that he and President Donald Trump had agreed to upend the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), placing it under the control of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Despite Musk and his team identifying billions in taxpayer dollars wasted on some of the USAID programs, Democrats said the move was unlawful and intensified their criticism of Musk’s role in the Trump administration.
On “Hannity,” host Sean Hannity questioned Musk about the pushback, pointing out Democratic talking points that his involvement and efforts to target government waste were unconstitutional.
“Why are they reacting like this?” Musk asked. “I guess we must be over the target or doing something right. They wouldn’t be complaining so much if we weren’t doing something useful, I think. What all we’re really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president. What we’re finding is that there’s an unelected bureaucracy — speaking of unelected, there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet.”
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“You look at, say, D.C. voting, it’s 92% Kamala. OK, so we’re in 92% Kamala. That’s a lot,” Musk added. “I think about that number a lot. I’m like 92%, that’s basically almost everyone. If the will of the president is not implemented and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented. That means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy. So I think what we’re seeing here is the sort of thrashing of the bureaucracy as we try to restore democracy and the will of the people.”