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Weekend Warrior: Elon Musk Reveals How DOGE Is Cutting Billions In Spending Every Day

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to have gotten off to a fast start during the first two weeks of President Donald Trump‘s second term. Elon Musk, who leads DOGE, delivered a number of updates on his social media platform, X, on Friday and into the weekend about what it takes to cut government ...

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Weekend Warrior: Elon Musk Reveals How DOGE Is Cutting Billions In Spending Every Day

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to have gotten off to a fast start during the first two weeks of President Donald Trump‘s second term.

Elon Musk, who leads DOGE, delivered a number of updates on his social media platform, X, on Friday and into the weekend about what it takes to cut government spending by billions of dollars a day.

He shared a post from DOGE that showed a list of more than 100 “DEI related contract cancellations” that resulted in more than $1 billion worth of “savings.”

Musk posted about cutting the federal deficit.

“Reducing the federal deficit from $2T to $1T in FY2026 requires cutting an average of ~$4B/day in projected 2026 spending from now to Sept 30,” Musk said in the original post. “That would still result in a ~$1T deficit, but economic growth should be able to match that number, which would mean no inflation in 2026. Super big deal.”

He later responded to the original post with updates.

“I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend,” Musk said. He added in a second post: “None of this would be possible without President @realDonaldTrump.”

With a third, Musk said: “Obviously, there will be EXTREME opposition from the grifters!! And they will make it sound like we’re cutting funding to save baby pandas when we’re actually cutting funding to fraudsters, wastrels & terrorists … This is only possible because of President @realDonaldTrump.”

A report from Reuters said aides to Musk locked government workers out of computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management.

Asked if the report was true, and given plaudits if it was, Musk replied with a smiling “winking face” emoji.

The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak posted about how the General Services Administration “surrendered” after a deputy to Musk “deleted huge swaths of code dedicated to virtue-signaling rather than mission, such as its ‘inclusion bot’ that lectured staff.”

Musk said in response to Rosiak: “Deleted.”

Rosiak also posted about how “Federal government-wide computer office @18F, which to this day has a transgender flag as its logo, also deleted where its employee handbook instructed employees to explain what they look like at each meeting so blind people could know if there was sufficient racial diversity.”

Musk said in reply: “The nightmare is Over.”

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck posted about DOGE and the Treasury Department.

“The highest ranking Treasury official, David A Lebryk, is resigning rather than complying with a request by @DOGE for access to audit where they’ve spent trillions of dollars a year,” Starbuck wrote. “Why would career bureaucrats fear an audit by @elonmusk and @doge to see where we can save money?”

Musk said in response: “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once.”

There were other posts about DOGE throughout the weekend.

 

 

In one of his most viral comments of the weekend, Musk revealed a major weakness of the bureaucracy that he is trying to shrink.

“Very few in the bureaucracy actually work the weekend, so it’s like the opposing team just leaves the field for 2 days! Working the weekend is a superpower,” he said.

Musk added later: “DOGE is working 120 hour a week. Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing so fast.”

Published at The Daily Wire
Originally Published at Daily Wire, World Net Daily, or The Blaze

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