Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is coming to the Pentagon. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a media interview that DOD is committed to passing a clean audit across the department, something that hasn’t yet been successfully done. “American taxpayers deserve to know exactly how and where their money is spent,” he said, reported DOD News. “We need to know when we spend dollars; we need to know where they’re going and why.” He said the department welcomes Elon Musk’s DOGE, which will help identify ways to streamline this process, fast-track acquisitions and cut waste.
Earlier, President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier in a pretaped interview aired yesterday, that he plans to direct Musk to start identifying wasteful spending at the departments of Education and Defense. “I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He’s going to find the same thing,” Trump said. “Then I’m going to go to the military. Let’s check the military. We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. And, you know, the people elected me on that.”
