In a clip posted to X by Libs of TikTok, Pete Hegseth explained how he welcomes the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) oversight of defense spending. Hegseth, the Secretary of State, said that the Department of Defense is rife with waste and fraud which DOGE can correct. He said this is vital to reforming the Military. Many online commenters expressed their support for Hegseth’s actions.
“So about wanting to welcome Elon Musk and goes into Pentagon potentially in the next few weeks,” the reporter queried. ” Do you expect him to start unilaterally cutting programs and contracts the way he’s done at USAID and other agencies, and are there any limits or supervision you’d want to place on his team given his comments of interest?”
“Well, we’ve been in touch with, I’ve been in touch with Elon Musk, who’s a great patriot interested in advancing the American first agenda,” Hegseth confidently answered. “We know that President Trump got 77 million votes in a mandate from the American people, and part of that is bringing actual business like efficiency to government. Hence what DOGE is doing.”
“We’ve been talking to them, in partnership with them, and as I said on social media, we welcome Doge to the Pentagon, and I hope to welcome Elon to the Pentagon very soon, and his team working in collaboration with us,” Hegseth continued to explain. “There are waste redundancies and head counts in headquarters that need to be addressed.”
“There’s just no doubt. Look at a lot of the climate programs that have been pursued at the Defense Department. Defense Department is not in the business of climate change, solving the global thermostat. We’re in the business of deterring and winning wars, so things like that,” the Secretary of Defence added before laying out exactly what he wants from DOGE.
“We want to look for, to find, efficiencies, and many others. The way we acquire Weapon System procurement, there’s plenty of places where we want the keen eye of Doge, but we’ll do it in coordination,” Pete Hegseth said to the reporter. “We’re not going to do things that are to the detriment of American operational or tactical capabilities.”
“There’s just the President Trump is committed to delivering the best possible military, the Defense Department is not USAID. USAID has got a lot of problems that I talked about with the troops pursuing globalist agendas that don’t have a connection to America first,” he astutelyy replied. “That’s not the Defense Department.”
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Watch Hegseth’s awesome response here:
“But we’re also not perfect either, so where we can find billions of dollars, and he’s right to save billions inside the Defense Department, every dollar we save there is $1 that goes to war fighters and that’s good for the American people,” The Secretary of State concluded. Online commenters were quick to express their support. “Democrats said they wanted The Pentagon looked into. Let’s see how they react when the military industrial complex loses trillions,” noticed one account.
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