2025-03-28
28 分钟This is In Conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today, inside Elon Musk's digital government takeover.
Earlier this week,
tech billionaire Elon Musk and the team running the Department of Government Efficiency sat down with Fox News' Brett Baer.
It was the first time the group did an interview
since they took control of several of the biggest government agency budgets in January.
Well, this is a revolution, and I think it might be the biggest revolution in government since the original revolution.
Over the course of just a few weeks,
Doge has swept through the federal government with extensive budget cuts, mass firings, and unmitigated data mining.
Our goal is to reduce the waste and fraud by $4 billion a day, every day, seven days a week.
And so far, we are succeeding.
Critics, including government employees and members of Congress,
have raised concerns that Doge is acting without transparency, accountability, or proper security clearances.
And that it's the role of Congress, which controls the purse strings,
to reduce the size and scope of government agencies.
Not Doge, a group that Congress didn't create or approve.
But Musk told Baer they are following the law.
We're trying to keep Congress as informed as possible, but the law does say that money needs to be spent correctly.
It should not be spent fraudulently or wastefully.