Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., appears to be in favor of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), after criticizing the Pentagon’s budget and botched social media audits and admitting, “Elon Musk is right.”
President-elect Trump has tapped Musk and former Republican Party presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE in an effort to stem the government’s wasteful spending.
Sanders addressed the wasteful spending in a post on X on Sunday.
“Elon Musk is right,” he wrote. “The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its seventh audit in a row. It has lost sight of the billions. Last year, only thirteen senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget riddled with waste and fraud. change.”
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Musk responded to Sanders’ post with two American flags.
Sanders did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The post comes as Musk continues to bash government spending on social media.
For example, he shared a post from DOGE’s The post also said the estimated completion date was 2020 and as of 2024 no one has been transported and most of the rail line has not been designed. The project received $6.8 billion in federal funding. The project team is now requesting an additional $8 billion in federal funds.
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Side by side Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk. (AP images)
Musk wrote in a repost: “The government needs to stop wasting your hard-earned money!”
In another post shared by Musk, he is seen speaking in front of an American flag.
“The interest we owe on our national debt is now higher than the defense budget. Over a trillion dollars and growing. The country is going bankrupt,” he said. “That is why we need the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, on a brass plate on a desk.”
Even last week, Musk said that a significant percentage of people don’t even know there is such a thing as a national debt.
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Congress is rushing to be ready to implement the recommendations of Trump’s new DOGE commission. (Getty Images)
“Those who do often don’t know how big it is or that our interest payments now exceed what we spend on our military. Only a small percentage understands that too much government spending causes inflation,” he said on X.
The national debt has risen above $36 trillion.
“America is going bankrupt fast,” Musk warned in another post.
“Excess government spending is causing inflation! ALL government expenditures are taxes. This is a very important concept to appreciate. It is either direct tax like income tax or indirect through inflation due to increasing money supply,” he claimed. a tweet earlier this month.
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Trump said in a statement that DOGE will “provide advice and guidance from outside the government and work with the White House and the Office of Management & Budget to achieve large-scale structural reforms and create an entrepreneurial approach to government never before seen.” has been seen.”
In one Op-ed from the Wall Street JournalMusk and Ramaswamy noted that they will work “as external volunteers, not as federal officials or employees.”
Fox News Digital’s Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
