As we have noted in previous news articles many times before; because of the spending habits of Washington, D.C. our country is now on life support when it comes to our national debt and our economy. Elon Musk was one the first to call attention that the amount we produce in our Gross Domestic Production (GDP) is now being outpaced by just the interest payments on our national debt. In the world of business we are now at the point of “diminishing returns”.
The Fox News interview of yesterday was a changeup of past habits where the DOGE committee members were kept more or less out of sight due to death threats and harassment by the left with their army of useful idiots. Yesterday we got to see the names, faces, and job titles of some of the heavy hitters helping Elon Musk save our nation.
Fox News personality Bret Bair opened the interview by asking DOGE founder Elon Musk what the end goal of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was. Musk responded we need to cut national spending by a trillion dollars. Musk said that one of the things that blew him away just recently was the cost of an online survey conducted for the Department of the Interior to see what Americans thought of their National Parks. That simple survey was budget itemed at almost $1B!
Musk sais DOGE has a goal of finding and slashing spending by $4B every day 7 days a week for the rest of their 130 day appointment as special employees to President Donald Trump in the Executive Branch. He said no final report will be given because their work is being very transparently published in real time on the DOGE website https://doge.gov/savings.
Each of the 7 accomplished brilliant people behind Musk do their own part and each got to speak about their role in DOGE.
The first to be asked a question by Bair was Steve Davis, an actual rocket scientist, who was introduced as the CEO of DOGE. Davis said “The country going bankrupt would be a bad thing therefor the country going not bankrupt is a good thing.” Davis comes to DOGE by way of Elon Musk’s chain of companies. He is widely credited for rightsizing Twitter after Musk’s purchase of the social media platform.
Joe Gebbia, a co-founder of Airbnb who is focused on overhauling the retirement system for federal workers said “We really believe that the government can have an Apple Store-like experience: beautifully designed, great user experience, modern systems.” His response was related to the “paper mine” in Pennsylvania that dates back to the 1950’s where paper files are stored on Federal retiree paperwork is stored.
Next up was Aram Moghaddassi, who was brought on as a DOGE software engineer to address the Social Security system. He said, “By some estimates Government IT costs about $100 billion (annually) it is funding systems (computers) that over 50 years old.”
At this point Bair played a video clip of a number of Democrats of Capitol Hill spreading the talking point lie that “Elon Musk is trying to cut Social Security,” as a setup for where the conversation was going next.
Moghaddassi very politely responded, “It doesn’t line up with my experience on the ground.” Moghadassi gave a very specific example of how DOGE is working to save Social Security. He noted that every day the Social Security Administration gets phone call of people trying to change direct deposit information fraudulently and that is 40% of all the calls they take!
Brad Smith works with the Department of Health and Human Services. He noted there are 700 different IT systems at NIH and they “can’t speak to each other.” There are 27 different chief information officers at NIH too. He noted that too much money for research goes to the overhead at universities (85%) and not enough to the actual scientists (15%) doing the actual research. Smith is a healthcare entrepreneur as founder and chief executive officer of Russell Street Ventures.
To speak next was Anthony Armstrong a former Morgan Stanley investment banker who is working with the Office of Personnel Management. Armstrong destroyed the mainstream media’s narrative that DOGE was firing all kinds of Federal workers in Washington, D.C. “You’ve heard a lot of news about RIFs people getting fired. At this moment in time less than 0.15% of the federal workforce has actually been given a RIF notice,” he reported.
Tom Krause, the ex-CEO of the Cloud Software Group, said “What we’re doing is applying private company standards to the federal government.” Krause was tapped by Musk to review the Treasury Department. Krause revealed the government uses only one bank account to disburse all of its money and payments both payroll and payments for goods and services.
Tyler Hassen, who’s assigned to the Interior Department noted Musk stole his thunder earlier as he was the one who found the cost of an online survey conducted for the Department of the Interior to see what Americans thought of their National Parks. That simple survey was budget itemed at almost $1B!
Hassen was one we remembered as a beloved character from another interview who Musk brought out of the energy industry of Texas and he said “I was running five businesses in Houston and I left that. I left great people to do this… I feel like this is me giving back to the country.”
CONCLUSION:
Bret Bair and Fox News deserve a ton of credit for this 40 minute. We recalled some of these people from a February “Newsweek” article here: https://www.newsweek.com/doge-list-staff-revealed-2029965 so it is really disingenuous for the mainstream media to accuse Musk and President Trump of operating DOGE in a secretive or elusive manner.
Right now the Democrats are portrayed as “the hunters” with their little paid protesters in the mainstream media. It is easy to imagine that the law and order patriot conservatives who back President Trump and Elon Musk in DOGE could soon turn the table on those Democrats.
Something that made me want to punch a Democrat was near the end of the interview when the actual rocket scientist, Steve Davis, revealed that there were over 4.6M credit cards released to only 2.3M Federal employees with very little oversight or checks and balances of those credit cards, presumably issued by that one single bank Tom Krause alluded to. Bair made a joke that there should be a lot of good frequent flyer miles with all of those cards to which the DOGE panel admitted the rewards program of the cards were nonexistent.
It was interesting to learn only a few of these men helping Musk were billionaires but all of them are very intelligent and a gift to our nation at this point in time.
This interview was some of the best television I have seen in a long time!
© 2025 by Mark S. Schwendau
