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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., seems to be in favor of the newly-established Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), after slamming the Pentagon’s funds and failed audits on social media and admitting, “Elon Musk is true.”
President-elect Trump tapped Musk and former GOP presidential major candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to guide DOGE in an effort to cease the federal government’s wasteful spending.
Sanders addressed the wasteful spending on Sunday in a publish on X.
“Elon Musk is true,” he wrote. “The Pentagon, with a funds of $886 billion, simply failed its seventh audit in a row. It’s misplaced monitor of billions. Final yr, solely 13 senators voted in opposition to the Navy Industrial Complicated and a protection funds stuffed with waste and fraud. That should change.”
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Musk responded to Sanders’ publish with two American flags.
Sanders didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
The publish comes as Musk continues to bash authorities spending on social media.
For instance, he shared a publish from DOGE’s X account in regards to the California Excessive Velocity Rail Venture, which was projected in 2008 to price $33 billion, and now could be projected to be between $88.5 and $127.9 billion. The publish additionally mentioned the estimated completion date was 2020 and, as of 2024, no person has been transported and nearly all of the railway has not been designed. The challenge acquired $6.8 billion in federal funding. The challenge workforce is now requesting one other $8 billion in federal funds.
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A side-by-side of Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk. (AP Pictures)
Musk wrote in a repost, “The federal government must cease losing your hard-earned cash!”
In one other publish shared by Musk, he’s seen talking in entrance of an American flag.
“The curiosity that we owe on our nationwide debt is now greater than the protection funds. Over a trillion {dollars} and rising. The nation goes to go bankrupt,” he mentioned. “That’s why we want the division of Authorities Effectivity, D.O.G.E., on a brass plaque on a desk.”
Even final week, Musk mentioned a major proportion of individuals don’t even know there may be such a factor as a nationwide debt.
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Congress is racing to be able to execute the suggestions of Trump’s new DOGE fee. (Getty Pictures)
“Those who do typically don’t know the way large it’s or that our curiosity funds now exceed what we spend on our army. Solely a small % perceive that authorities overspending causes inflation,” he mentioned on X.
The nationwide debt has soared previous $36 trillion.
“America goes bankrupt quick,” Musk warned in one other publish.
“The surplus authorities spending is what causes inflation! ALL authorities spending is taxation. It is a crucial idea to understand. It’s both direct taxation, like earnings tax, or oblique through inflation resulting from growing the cash provide,” he asserted in a tweet earlier this month.
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Trump mentioned in a press release that DOGE “will present recommendation and steerage from exterior of presidency and can associate with the White Home and Workplace of Administration & Funds to drive large-scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial strategy to authorities by no means seen earlier than.”
In a Wall Road Journal opinion piece, Musk and Ramaswamy famous that they may work “as exterior volunteers, not federal officers or workers.”
Fox Information Digital’s Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
Greg Wehner is a breaking information reporter for Fox Information Digital.
Story ideas and concepts could be despatched to Greg.Wehner@Fox.com and on Twitter @GregWehner.
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