Trump Expects Musk to Find Billions in Pentagon Waste Next The Pentagon's budget is roughly $1 trillion per year.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects Elon Musk to find hundreds of
billions of dollars of fraud and abuse at the Pentagon during an audit
that the billionaire will lead.

“I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the
Department of Education. … Then I’m going to go, go to the military. Let’s
check the military,” Trump said in a Super Bowl interview with Fox News’
Bret Baier, an excerpt of which was aired on Sunday morning.

“We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud
and abuse,” Trump said of the largest federal department.

The Pentagon’s budget is approaching $1 trillion per year. In December,
then-President Joe Biden signed a bill authorizing $895 billion in defense
spending for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.

Musk, who the White House says is a special government employee, has been
tasked by Trump to lead an effort to slash the size of the U.S. federal
workforce. As part of that initiative, Musk aides have sought access to
confidential information in computer systems at various government
agencies.

Critics say the efforts are likely illegal, risk exposing classified
information and in practice are gutting entire agencies without
congressional approval.

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz suggested in a separate interview on
Sunday that the Pentagon’s shipbuilding processes could be an area of
particular interest for the Department of Government Efficiency, and he
characterized the Pentagon in general as full of unnecessary bloat.

“Everything there seems to cost too much, take too long and deliver too
little to the soldiers… We do need business leaders to go in there and
absolutely reform the Pentagon’s acquisition process,” Waltz said in an
interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“There is plenty to look into in shipbuilding, which is an absolute mess,”
Waltz added.

Leaders from across the political spectrum have long criticized waste and
inefficiency at the Pentagon. But Democrats and civil service unions say
Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency lacks the expertise to
restructure the Pentagon, and their efforts risk exposing classified
programs.

Musk’s companies also hold major contracts with the Pentagon, which has
raised significant conflict of interest concerns.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects Elon Musk to find hundreds of
billions of dollars of fraud and abuse at the Pentagon during an audit
that the billionaire will lead.

Musk has been successful finding everyone who has been mean to him
and chasing them out.