Well, also on Capitol Hill today, the House subcommittee that bears a slightly different name

but the same acronym as Elon Musk's agency, Doge, held its first hearing.

Well, members from both parties say they were focused on rooting out waste and fraud.

Democrats were quick to point out that Musk did not appear before the committee.

Directly to Mr. Elon Musk.

We are well aware that you are eager to engage with members of Congress on social media,

but we're not here to play.

If you have serious desire to engage in democracy and transparency, we welcome you to the Oversight Committee.

Come and testify in front of the American people under oath because we want to know what you're up to.

Meanwhile, Republicans took aim at their colleagues across the aisle.

If we've learned anything so far, it's that Republicans want to cut waste, fraud, and abuse

from our federal government and save taxpayer dollars.

And Democrats want a grandstand and play politics.

For some more perspective on this, we turn now to David Walker.

Between 1998 and 2008, he headed the U.S.

Government Accountability Office that investigates federal spending. David, welcome to the NewsHour.

Thanks for joining us. Good to be with you on that. So I think it's fair to say you'd be hard

pressed to find someone who says there's absolutely no waste or fraud in government spending. But when you look at what Doge is

doing and how they're doing the job so far, do you think that they're targeting the waste and

fraud that you think they should be? Well, what they're doing is they're really doing a review

of information systems and transactions. They're not doing an audit. And they're identifying

areas that could be fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement. In most cases, it's arguably waste and

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