Elon Musk revealed a few the largest scams uncovered by the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) throughout an interview with Senator Ted Cruz.
Musk appeared on Ted Cruz’s podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz” with co-host Ben Ferguson to debate DOGE and the primary 50 days of the Trump Administration.
The episode, which was filmed on the White Home, aired on Monday.
Elon Musk mentioned DOGE has discovered MILLIONS of presidency bank cards with a $10,000 restrict.
DOGE says it has saved roughly $105 billion in a “mixture of asset gross sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper fee deletion, grant cancellations, curiosity financial savings,” and different workforce reductions.
The Democrats are indignant that DOGE is saving American taxpayers cash, in order that they devised a scheme to cease Elon Musk and his group.
There are at present practically a dozen lawsuits difficult DOGE over its authority, knowledge entry, and privateness legal guidelines.
There’s additionally a secret resistance settlement between 14 states to conduct coordinated lawfare towards DOGE and Elon Musk.
Final week, DOGE introduced that it had already deactivated 200,000 authorities bank cards in 16 businesses.
Nevertheless, there are a complete of 4.6 million energetic bank cards/accounts!
Weekly Credit score Card Replace!
Pilot program with 16 businesses to audit unused/unneeded bank cards. After 3 weeks, >200,000 playing cards have been de-activated. Nice progress this previous week by @HHSGov @Inside
As a reminder, initially of the audit, there have been ~4.6M energetic… pic.twitter.com/xZaZJ51AOV
— Division of Authorities Effectivity (@DOGE) March 11, 2025
Elon Musk mentioned DOGE “discovered twice as many bank cards as there are people. And these are playing cards with $10,000 per 30 days limits! That’s some huge cash!”
“What’s the waste-to-fraud ratio? For my part, it’s 80% waste, 20% fraud,” Elon Musk mentioned.
WATCH:
NEW: Elon Musk opens up about waste and fraud DOGE is exposing
“Most of what DOGE is discovering, you don’t must be Sherlock Holmes. It’s very apparent, fundamental stuff,” @elonmusk mentioned
“We discovered TWICE as many bank cards as there are people. And these are playing cards with $10K per… pic.twitter.com/2bnMZbPGi7
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 17, 2025
Elon Musk additionally mentioned that one of many greatest scams uncovered is the cash laundering operation involving so-called ‘nonprofits.’
“One of many greatest scams we’ve uncovered is that the federal government may give cash to so-called nonprofits with only a few controls and there’s no auditing of that nonprofit,” Elon Musk mentioned.
Nonprofits take billions of {dollars} from the US authorities, and there’s no oversight or auditing of the agency.
Democrat grifters like Stacey Abrams are getting uncovered for creating nonprofits and taking billions of {dollars} from taxpayers.
“They then give themselves extraordinarily lavish, like insane salaries, expense every little thing to the nonprofit – , purchase jets and houses all types of issues,” Elon Musk mentioned.
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ELON MUSK: “One of many greatest scams we’ve uncovered is that the federal government may give cash to so referred to as non revenue with only a few controls and there’s no auditing of that non revenue.” pic.twitter.com/ovUqzsseXi
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) March 17, 2025
