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JUST IN: Elon Reveals DOGE’s Latest Jaw-Dropping Discovery In New Interview

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March 28, 2025

After two months on the job, the casual nature of eye-popping waste in the federal government is still managing to shock Elon Musk on a regular basis.

The Tesla founder and cost-cutting advisor to President Donald Trump was joined on Fox News by seven of his top lieutenants from DOGE, the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, to reveal another astonishing example of how private contractors were fleecing the government under the Biden-Harris administration.

Among the “mind-blowing” findings was a simple survey on Americans’ use of the U.S. National Parks, whose department receives approximately $3.3 billion in annual funding. According to Musk, a contractor was charging nearly a third of the department’s entire budget to perform a survey that could have been built and disseminated for far less on a service like Survey Monkey.

“We routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more,” he said in the Thursday night interview. “Casually.”

The 10-question Parks survey could have been accomplished for “about $10,000,” he stated. Instead, “the government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that.”

Baier’s jaw dropped. “For just the survey?”

“A simple online survey: Do you like the National Parks?” Musk insisted. “And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey. So the survey would just go into nothing.”

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As a special government employee, Musk has a 130-day tenure where he has worked frantically to put DOGE on a path toward trimming $1 trillion in federal waste in its first year. Asked by Baier whether he would request an extension from President Trump after the timeline expires next month, the entrepreneur said it may be premature.

“I think we’ll have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that timeframe,” he replied.

To be sure, controversy has followed DOGE’s proclamation about finding savings at every turn. Some receipts for canceled contracts have been pulled from a website documenting the department’s achievements, while others have been double-counted.

But for as many instances the media has found to quibble with Musk’s austerity, the Trump advisor has managed to produce a plethora of federal spending initiatives that were indisputably wasteful or reeked of political patronage.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it had canceled a $2 billion grant intended for distribution to a shell company established by failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. And just this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would be canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for projects in South America, some related to issues of “gender equity,” “worker empowerment,” and other liberal buzzwords.

It’s been more than a month since Musk and Trump gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development, a hotbed of social justice activity that the administration has cited as a partisan waste of money unaligned with its America First agenda. The near-total obliteration of USAID will save Americans close to $40 billion annually.

Similarly wide-ranging plans were announced this week for major staffing reductions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The announcement comes while the U.S. Department of Education is shaving its staff of thousands down to just a skeleton crew after President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the entire agency.