The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is on a mission to fix a broken system. In a revealing Special Report interview, officials highlighted massive government waste—$500 billion lost to fraud each year, outdated technology, and improper payments. Elon Musk called the scale of inefficiency “mind-blowing,” citing cases of small business loans granted to infants and centenarians. With backing from President Trump, DOGE is working to protect Social Security, modernize healthcare, and ensure taxpayer dollars are used responsibly.
ICYMI: DOGE’s Mission to Make Government Work Again
Last night, members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team joined Bret Baier on Special Report — a compelling segment on their efforts to fulfill President Donald J. Trump’s mission of making government work for the people again.
Here’s what you missed:
- Tom Krause on restoring fiscal responsibility: “We’re changing the culture … There’s $500 billion of fraud every year, there’s hundreds of billions of dollars of improper payments, and we can’t pass an audit … If I was a public company CFO, I would effectively be removed.”
- Aram Moghaddassi on improving Social Security benefits: “The two improvements that we’re trying to make to Social Security are helping people that legitimately get benefits protect them from fraud that they experience every day on a routine basis, and also make the experience better … At Social Security, one of the first things we learned is that they get phone calls every day of people trying to change direct deposit information … We learned 40% of the phone calls that they get are from fraudsters … Almost half.”
- Elon Musk on cracking down on fraudulent payments: “There were over $300M of Small Business Administration loans that have been given out to people under the age of 11 … $300 million to over the age of 120 … The youngest recipient of a Small Business Administration loan is a nine-month-old.”
- Brad Smith on enhancing health care: “There’s 700 different IT systems today at NIH … They can’t speak to each other. They have 27 different CIOs. And so when you think about making great medical discoveries, you have to connect the data.”
- Joe Gebbia on making government retirement more efficient: “The process takes many months — and we’re going to make it just many days.”
- Elon Musk on waste, fraud, and abuse: “The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government, it is astonishing — it’s mind blowing. We routinely encounter wastes of $1 billion or more — casually.”
- Elon Musk on DOGE’s core mission: “At the end of the day, America is going to be in much better shape. America will be solvent. The critical programs that people depend upon will work and it’s going to be a fantastic future.”
The White House
March 28, 2025
Souirces : WH.gov, Midtown Tribune
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