President Trump promises to send Doge to the Ministry of Education, military
In the 20 days since Donald Trump took office, he has unleashed a whirlwind of activity designed to lower government spending and to beat the federal workforce. According to his pre-super bowl interview on Fox News, the campaign is not stopping quickly.
While he spoke with Fox News -anchor Bret Baier on Sunday prior to Super Bowl Lix, Trump said he is planning to send ELON Musk’s efficiency to the US Army and the Ministry of Education, possibly within the next “24 hours” .
When asked if he trusted Musk and his efforts to dismantle the American Bureau for International Development, Trump replied: “Trust Elon? He doesn’t throw anything. I wonder how he can spend the time on [DOGE]. He’s so much. I will tell him very quickly, perhaps in 24 hours, to check the Ministry of Education. He’s going to find the same thing [as USAID]. Then I go to the army. Let’s check the army. We will find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse. ”
Trump doubled on his earlier promises to abolish the Ministry of Education Days after the news was broken that he was preparing an executive order that the federal department would eliminate that was founded by the congress in 1979, according to several News sources. Defense expenditure is a newer target for Trump, in which the 47th president announced for the first time at a Friday press conference that Musk’s Doge will soon try to reduce in “The Pentagon, that is the army”, according to the New York Times.
Although Trump has made many promises about the far -reaching power of Doge, not all attempts to increase its influence have been successful. Judge judge Paul Engelmayer of the US has blocked Doge on Saturday to gain access to the payment system of the Treasury Department, referring to the potential for “irreparable damage”, Per CNN.
“I’m not even 100%. I think it’s crazy. And we have to solve the efficiency problem, “Trump told Baier about the government of the Treasury. “We have to solve the fraud, waste, abuse, all things that went to the government.”
Baier pressed Trump or “important things” were found by Doge’s research into organizations such as USAID. Trump replied: “We are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars of money that goes to places where it should not go. If I read a list, you would say that this is ridiculous. You have read the same lists. There are many You have not even seen it.
Baier later asked Trump if he thought about ways to bring a divided country together. Trump quickly turned his answer to refer to his push to ban transgender athletes from sports competitions.
“We have to come together, but to come together, there is only one thing that it will do. And that is enormous success. Success will bring the country together, “said Trump. “But it’s hard. And I say it’s hard. I have just signed an account with which women should not be punished by men in sport. In other words, men are not allowed to play in sport against women. It’s ridiculous “
