In what might have been one of the most momentous yet of his single-word responses on X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he owns, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk indicated that his new department is finding a vast amount of corruption in the government as it digs into federal spending.
As background, nearly as soon as President Donald Trump created it, DOGE started digging into federal spending. Most prominently so far, it has found and canceled huge numbers of relatively small-scale, wasteful contracts, such as unused leases Elon has gotten rid of, DEI contracting he has obliterated, and even things like contracts for watering plants for thousands of dollars.
But while those items in the federal budget and spending have garnered the most attention, many suspect that there is far worse corruption going on that it is discovering, something Elon has hinted at with revelations about the “vampires” that are impossibly old and still getting checks from Social Security and similarly large-scale problems.
So, though his big revelations haven’t been as much about direct corruption as about wasteful spending, many conservatives, particularly online, think there is much corruption that Elon is finding. One person who said as much in a post on X posted a picture that said, “First of All Elon is Not Finding Wasteful Spending…He’s Finding Kickbacks, Money Laundering & Theft. No wonder they’re screaming for him to stop!”
Elon apparently saw that post, which had gotten nearly 5 million impressions as of the time this article was written. Quote tweeting it, Elon indicated that the post was accurate and he is indeed finding the vast corruption about which the poster wrote, saying, “True” in his moment quote tweet of the post about DOGE-discovered corruption.
Mr. Musk has indicated that one locus of massive corruption and waste is American entitlement programs, which he sees as being drained by improper payments. Such is what Musk again said in an interview with Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow, telling the host and viewers, “The waste report in entitlement spending, you know, which is all of the, which is most of the federal spending is entitlements. So that’s like the big one to eliminate, that’s the sort of half trillion maybe $600, $700 billion a year.” Watch him here:
