President Donald Trump praised the ongoing work of billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) army on Thursday while continuing their efforts to investigate the federal government for waste and fraud.
Doge Lieutenant Gavin Kliger and other employees arrived on Thursday morning at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate the activities of the agency, according to two people who are familiar with the issue who speak to Reuters.
“I think the internal revenue service will be seen to everyone,” Trump said on Thursday afternoon during comments in the Oval Office.
He clarified that he did not expect to close the IRS, but wanted to investigate the expenditure of the department.
“They do it a Helluva work, it's a great task they do,” said Trump. “You know that power is buildings, I call it the power of supergenies,” he said.
The president endorsed the efforts of Doge within the federal government and noted that they were corruption and waste of everywhere they went.
“They are going to talk to the people about their deals and people are tied tied, they can't even talk because these people understand,” he said, referring to the Musk team. “They are very smart people. We need smart people. '
The American President Donald Trump speaks alongside Elon Musk in the Oval office of the White House
Elon Musk listens to US President Donald Trump, speaks in the Oval office of the White House
Trump has now spoken for Doge for three consecutive days, while Democrats and federal workers continue to protest against their efforts.
On Wednesday, Trump said that the group of musk had gone from 20 people to no less than 100.
“He is a successful guy,” Trump said about Musk. “That's why we want him to do this. We don't want a failed man to do this. '
The DOGE team updated their government website on Wednesday and promised to release publicly available data from the savings they had discovered on Friday.
The team of technology experts have been terrifying government employees by entering department buildings and by combing public data in search of potential cuts.
DOGE currently saved the federal government $ 45.44 billion dollars according to a count performed by doge-pracker.com.
Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday and ordered federal agencies to coordinate with doge to make 'large -scale reductions of strength'.
