Elon Musk said in an interview this week that his goal of helping the Trump administration eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government is on track to be nearly complete by June.
Speaking with Fox News anchor Bret Baier in a wide-ranging conversation, Musk—alongside top officials from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative—offered a behind-the-scenes look at their efforts to steer the U.S. away from financial collapse.
Musk explained that their objective is to cut the federal deficit in half, aiming for a $1 trillion reduction.
“We want to reduce the spending by eliminating waste and fraud, reduce the spending by 15%, which seems really quite achievable,” he said. “The government is not efficient, and there’s a lot of waste and fraud. So we feel confident that 15% reduction can be done without affecting any of the critical government services.”
Baier pointed out that Musk was technically a “special government employee” and was supposed to be in the government for only 130 days. “Are you going to continue past that?” Baier asked. “Or do you think that’s what you’re going to do?”
“I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that time frame,” Musk responded.
“So in that time frame, 130 days?” Baier followed up.
“Yes,” Musk said.
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🚨 ELON MUSK: “I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by $1 trillion within the time frame of 130 days.
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Earlier this week, Musk hosted conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel and GOP Sen. Ron Johnson for a discussion on X about the importance of the state supreme court election on April 1.
“This is a very important race for many reasons. The most consequential is that it will decide how congressional districts are drawn in Wisconsin, which, if the other candidate wins, instead of Justice Schimel, then the Democrats will attempt to redraw the districts and cause Wisconsin to lose two Republican seats. In my opinion, that’s the most important thing, which is a big deal given that the congressional majority is so razor-thin. It could cause the House to switch to Democrat if that redrawing takes place,” Musk said.
The billionaire entrepreneur is afraid that, if Schimel loses and the liberal candidate wins — keeping the court at a 4-3 liberal-to-conservative advantage — the justices will redraw the congressional lines that currently give Republicans a 6-2 edge in the U.S. House delegation.
With the GOP majority in the U.S. House literally at stake, Musk and voter registration activist Scott Presler are working tirelessly to encourage Republicans to participate in the Tuesday election.
America PAC, a political action committee founded by the SpaceX and Tesla CEO to support President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, is spending $1 million to back Schimel’s canvassing and field operations.
Another Musk-backed group, Building America’s Future, purchased $1.5 million in commercials to support the conservative candidate.
His opponent is liberal judge Susan Crawford.
The state is split between a Democrat governor and a Republican legislature, so the Supreme Court “is the center of the action,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden told CNN last month. “It’s become a place where a lot of hot-button issues people care about get decided.”
Meanwhile, Presler — who has been credited with helping flip Pennsylvania red during the last election cycle by registering tens of thousands of new Republican voters — is warning that there could be a repeat of a blowout 2023 election in the state in which liberal-leaning Janet Protasiewicz beat conservative candidate Dan Kelly and flipped the balance of the court.
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