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But Musk didn’t stop at the numbers. He pulled back the curtain on the bloated absurdities his team uncovered inside the federal machine. “Like people getting unemployment insurance who haven’t been born yet,” he quipped, capturing the attention—and disbelief—of the room.
The DOGE initiative hasn’t just made headlines for the dollar amounts. It’s also made enemies. Critics on the Left accuse the agency of gutting “vital” services and overstepping its boundaries by reportedly accessing sensitive data. Still, Musk and his team remain undeterred.
“People ask me, like, well, how are you going to find waste, fraud and abuse in the federal in the government? I’m like, well, actually, just go in any direction,” Musk told officials. “That’s how you find it. It’s very common. It’s, as military would say, a target rich environment.”
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The official DOGE website claims the program has already saved every taxpayer $931—a figure likely to grow in the coming months.
Critics may scoff, but Americans across the political spectrum are likely to appreciate one thing: real savings. Musk assured the president and the Cabinet that the cuts wouldn’t weaken services. In fact, he said, “the cuts will actually result in better services for the American people.”
Even Vice President J.D. Vance weighed in, swatting down rumors that Trump was souring on Musk. “First of all, that report I saw was total fake news,” Vance told Fox News, referring to claims Musk would soon be stepping back. He clarified Musk’s role as a temporary six-month special advisor, noting that while his official duties are set to end soon, “he’s going to continue to be an advisor.”
While Musk’s name grabs headlines, DOGE has quietly been making surgical strikes against wasteful international spending, too. Earlier this month, the agency axed $51 million in grants from the U.S. African Development Foundation—an entity that’s long funneled cash into niche overseas projects, many with questionable returns.
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Among the canceled projects were nearly a quarter-million dollars to market pineapple juice in Benin, $230,000 for promoting organic shea butter in Burkina Faso, and $84,000 for a Nigerian spa and wellness incubator. Also chopped: $100,000 for yogurt production in Uganda, $50,000 for teaching Senegalese farmers to grow dragon fruit, and another $50,000 for a WhatsApp chatbot in Kenya.
DOGE posted the announcement on X (formerly Twitter), stating: “The US African Development Foundation has terminated $51M in grants.”
For fiscal conservatives, this is the kind of aggressive cleanup they’ve been waiting for. For liberals, it’s a nightmare. Either way, the Musk-led DOGE offensive is rewriting the rules—and the budget—for how Washington operates. And if $150 billion is just the beginning, there’s no telling how deep this revolution could go.
