Elons Fox interview reassures Americans that DOGE knows what its doing

Bret Baier’s interview with Elon Musk and DOGE leadership was so good you wonder why they waited so long to speak to the American people directly.The conversation not only let taxpayers put names and faces behind the effort, it helped DOGE clarify the agency’s mission.Democrats like to portray DOGE as a gang of extremists armed with hatchets recklessly hacking away at critical government services.What we saw was not only an impressive group, but thoughtful about the government’s critical functions.We shouldn’t overstate DOGE’s capacity to fix our extravagant spending problem — that’s Congress’ job.Still, Musk’s goal of reducing the deficit by a trillion dollars, dropping federal spending from $7 trillion to $6 trillion — a 14% cut — would be a bigger cut than any in government history.If DOGE fulfills its goal within the 130-day time frame Elon promised, it may well become the first government agency in history to do a job on time.And the job is vital.Everyone understands on a theoretical level that the government is especially inefficient and wasteful.Hearing DOGE engineers and experts explain how those billions are misused, and how they plan on fixing the problem, makes it more real.Musk told Baier, for instance, about a National Parks Service survey system that cost $800 million.

Now, that’s bad enough, right? It turns out, the survey had no feedback loop, meaning the answers went into the abyss.Why does the federal government have 4 million credit cards for 2 million employees?Why does the IRS employ 1,400 people whose only job it is to hand out laptops and cellphones?Then again, it’s not just about money.It’s about changing the reckless culture of DC.DOGE’s Tom Krause noted that the Treasury Department uses “one bank account” to make trillions in federal payments.

If the government were a corporation, it would not only be “impossible” for it to pass an audit, but the leadership would likely be in jail.One of themes that k...