An Exclusive Interview with Elon Musk & the DOGE Team

The Bret Baier Podcast

FOX News Radio

News, Politics, News Commentary

3.6 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Questions about what role Elon Musk and the DOGE team are playing within the Trump administration have been swirling since President Trump's return to the White House. While the team sets out to address a largely bipartisan issue - reducing government waste, fraud, and abuse - many Americans are still curious as to how exactly the DOGE team is doing that. In an exclusive interview, Bret Baier sits down with Elon Musk and seven key members of DOGE to ask these questions — including how they plan to reduce the deficit by $1 trillion, provide more government transparency, and what their most astonishing findings have been thus far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.9	Conditions apply.
0:44.3	Fox News Podcasts presents the Brett Bear podcast with Fox News chief political anchor Brett Bear. I know there's a lot of interest in this.
0:46.3	You know, first let me start with you, Elon.
0:48.3	What are the budgetary savings goals and how much do you think you've achieved so far?
0:58.0	Our goal is to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars.
1:03.8	So from a nominal deficit of two trillion to try cut the deficit in half to one trillion or looked at it in total federal spending to drop the federal spending from seven trillion to six trillion.
1:09.7	We want to reduce the spending by eliminating waste and fraud, reduce the spending by 15%,
1:14.6	which seems really quite achievable.
1:17.6	The government is not efficient, and there's a lot of waste and fraud, so we feel confident that a 15% reduction can be done without affecting any of the critical government services.
1:32.7	I'm going to talk to all the guys.
1:33.8	In fact, if you're not making it better.
1:34.6	I'm going to talk to all the guys here about the specifics.
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