While Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue their mission to defeat government spending, a displayed video clip reveals an unlikely ally in comedian Jon Stewart.
The president and his 'first buddy' spent the first weeks of Trump's second term to get rid of Washington waste through the Musk-Heading Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
One of the following goals on the Trump list is to have Musk look at the editions in the Pentagon and the army.
'I instructed him to look at education to view the Pentagon that the army is. And unfortunately you will find some things that are pretty bad, “Trump said during a press conference in the White House on Friday.
Trump -fans on social media made noise during an interview from 2023 that Stewart – prior to his return to organizing the Daily Show Part -Time – was performed in Chicago with deputy Defense Minister Kathleen Hicks.
Stewart sounded like a member of Musk's' Nerd Army ', asked Hicks – a Joe Biden -Stiged – waste, fraud and abuse' in the system and asked the Pentagon to pass an audit.
Hicks claimed that they were two different things and Stewart asked her to explain what separates them.
“The fact that the DOD did not pass an audit is not indicate waste, fraud and abuse, that is completely incorrect,” she argued.
While Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue to fight for the control of government spending, a new clip shows them with an unlikely ally in comedian Jon Stewart
Trump -fans on social media made noise during an interview from 2023 that Stewart – prior to his return to organizing the Daily Show Part -time – was performed in Chicago with Defense Minister Kathleen Hicks
Stewart, dissatisfied, asked: “So what suggests that?”
“It suggests that we have no accurate inventory that we can pick up what we have, that is not the same as saying that we cannot do that because wasting, fraud and abuse took place,” Hicks replied.
The comic then explained that 'in my world, that is waste', what an irritated Hicks encourages to ask how.
'If I give you a billion dollar and you can't tell me what happened to me, that is wasting for me. If you can't tell me where it was going, what should I think? '
He clarified that this was not a personal attack on Hicks, but pointed out that an agency with a budget of $ 850 billion could not follow was in fact wasting, especially when he was driven on military bases on military bases.
Hicks, clearly disturbed at the moment, decided to weave: “I try to understand where you are trying to go, other than the dollars, which really bothers you!”
“I don't think it's really bothering me, I think it's all connected,” he says, against which Hicks is constantly asking him to “tell me that story.”
Stewart said that he had not loved those military expenditures after the end of the war in Afghanistan, while the government is struggling to get people more basic services. '
Stewart sounded like a member of Musk's' Nerd Army ', asked Hicks – a Joe Biden -Steld – waste, fraud and abuse' in the system and asked the Pentagon to pass an audit
“We came from 20 years of war and the Pentagon got an elevation of $ 50 billion, that's shocking for me!”
He finally went into the murder and said: 'I may not exactly understand the ins and the incredible magic of an audit, but I am a person who lives on earth and cannot find out how $ 850 billion for a department means that the rank And the file still has to be on food vouchers. '
“For me that is corruption,” he told a significant applause from the public.
Stewart then called on Hicks' attitude towards his questions such as' institutional thinking 'that' the daily reality 'of rank-and-file soldiers ignores.
'I am not looking to choose a fight with you, but I am surprised that the reaction to these questions is: you don't know what an audit is, Bucko! That's just strange for me, “he ended.
The video was impressed by some who occupied the other side of the political spectrum for the old liberal hero.
'You may not always agree with Jon Stewart, but in this clip he asked the former Deputy Minister of Defense about how the Pentagon fails and everything she could do in response was Gaslight him and try to define the conditions again to Dancing around corruption, “wrote one.
'I may not always agree with Jon Stewart about his ideological views (other than his love for animals!), But you can never say that the man is not intelligent. He does have a common sense, as is witness, “added another.
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One has passed on to what advice can be for Musk and Trump: 'The audit is possible. You just have to throw away the grifters and the money laundering operations. '
The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row because it was unable to explain billions in public spending.
Trump has also endorsed the idea to close the Ministry of Education.
The attempt to eradicate government waste led by Muskus has struck fear in government employees and angry Democrats for its draconian cuts on federal financing programs.
Musk's Department of Government Efficiency ordered the USAID Relief Agency to be closed on Friday.
Federal employees were seen on Friday afternoon who remove the letters from the office building where demonstrators gathered earlier in the week.
The Doge Social Media account celebrated the event and shares images of the building with the letters removed.
“Unsoured by what has been,” the message reads a reference to a favorite saying of the former Democratic Presidential Nominated Kamala Harris.
