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Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon musk He ended up his time as a public face of Doge at a press conference with President Donald Trump on Monday, leaving a total of $ 175 billion in a total of $ 175 billion in the last few months.
$ 175 billion savings from reducing state contracts, property sales, identification of irregular payments and other cost reduction measures is $ 1,086.96 according to each individual taxpayer, Doge’s website states.
The cuts took place throughout the Government, a prominent kit dismantling the USAID -A, where 83% of the agency program and 5,200 contracts were canceled after the end of six weeks of Doge’s examination was completed.
Trump discussed some other significant reductions at a press conference on Friday.
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President Donald Trump, Right, and Elon Musk, Executive Director of Tesla Inc., during a press conference at the White House oval office in Washington on May 30, 2025. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“$ 20 million for Arabic Sezam Street in the Middle East, “Trump said.” No one knows what it is about. No one was able to find him. $ 8 million to make transgender mice. So they spent $ 8 million to make transgender mice. And they are better than many others. I could sit here all day and read such things. “
While some outlets including the New York Times and BBC News have Doge’s challenging estimate of $ 175 billion And he claimed that the true number was smaller, Musk told reporters at an oval office on Friday that the savings would continue to be built, and he was convinced that the total reductions would be $ 1 trillion in the coming years.
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Elon Musk observes that President Donald Trump meets President of South African President Cyril Ramaphos. (AP/Evan Vucci)
“The impact of Doge -a will only get stronger, “Musk said.” I compare him to a kind of person of Buddhism. It’s like a lifestyle, so it pervades the whole government. And I am convinced that over time we will see $ 1 billion savings and a reduction of $ 1 billion dollars of waste, a decrease in fraud. “
In addition, Musk said Doge cuts would soon hit a threshold of $ 200 billion for a fiscal year 25-26.
From the very beginning, Doga was hit not only to the tsunams of negative printing and outraged democratic laws, but also a number of lawsuits, which warmed it in long legal battles while Musk struggled to reach its original estimates of $ 1-2 trillion.
The Dogeo protester holds a sign in Parkersburg, West Virginia. (Fox News Digital)
Together with the reality of most of the main cuts, for which it required the approval of the Congress for the implementation, Doge’s impact on cutting around the edges of large programs and agencies that would probably want to completely eliminate.
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On Friday, Musk asked what the biggest “blocker of the road” was for him in Doge.
“It’s mostly just a lot of hard work,” Musk replied. “This is really no person or congress. It goes through the really millions of line items and says that only each of them makes sense or no sense.”
“Obviously, at a time when you reduced the costs, those who receive money, whether they receive, are receiving money legitimate or not. They complain, and you will not hear that someone admitted that he received the money inappropriately. Never. They will always say that they received money appropriately for a report.
Fox News Digital, Peter Pinedo, contributed to this report.
