DOGE to audit Pentagon

Elon Musk, as head of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been tasked with revising federal spending, and has set his sights on the Pentagon and the Department of Education, US President Donald Trump has confirmed. The newly authorized audits come in line with a broad push to slash public expenses.

Speaking at the press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday, Trump said that Musk will go through "just about everything" while reviewing the budgets of the departments.
 

"I've instructed him to go check out education to check out the Pentagon, which is the military, and sadly you'll find some things that are pretty bad, but I don't think proportionately, you're going to see anything like we just saw. DOGE will find a lot taking into account how 'bad' it was with what we just went." 

Earlier this week, Trump stated that billions of dollars have been stolen by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), highlighting that the lion's share of the funds were used to pay for positive media coverage of Democrats...<<<Read More>>>...