Elon Musk’s next target: The Department of Education.
President Donald Trump says he will instruct the head of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to examine the Education Department for potential cuts next.
‘I ran on this, and the people want me to find this,’ Trump told Fox News host Bret Baier in a pre-taped interview that will air before the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon.
Trump said he fully trusts Elon to find fraud and identify where government spending can be cut as he seeks to reduce U.S. waste and climbing debt.
It comes after USAID was completely shuttered last week by Musk and Trump.
The Tesla and SpaceX billionaire also said this weekend that the estimate of ‘unequivocal and obvious fraud’ at the Treasury Department amounts to $1 billion every week.
‘I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education – he’s going to find the same thing,’ Trump said of Musk’s next project.
‘Then I’m going to go to the Military – let’s check the military,’ the commander-in-chief added. ‘We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. And you know, the people elected me on that.’
Donald Trump sat down with Bret Baier for an interview that will air on Fox News before the Super Bowl on Sunday
Trump said on a few occasions last week that he was going to have Musk’s DOGE look next at the Education and Defense Departments for waste and potential cuts.
Baier asked the President if he ‘trusts’ Musk.
‘Trust Elon?’ Trump shrugged off the question. ‘Oh, he’s not gaining anything.’
‘In fact, I wonder how he can devote the time to it, he’s so into it,’ he said of the ‘first buddy,’ who is leading efforts to slash what the administration sees as wasteful or excessive government spending.
In just two weeks, Trump and Musk agreed to completely gut the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The thousands of employees at the agency were either locked out of their systems last Monday or told not to report to the Washington, D.C. headquarters because it had been shuttered.
Those employees overseas were told that they would have travel arranged back to the U.S. within 30 days.
