Elon Musk and DOGE Aides Attempt a Allure Offensive in Fox Information Interview

Elon Musk tried a attraction offensive in an interview that aired Thursday on Fox Information.

Mr. Musk and several other prime aides on the Division of Authorities Effectivity sat with Bret Baier, portraying themselves as public servants who simply need to assist enhance America’s steadiness sheets.

“On the finish of the day, America goes to be in a lot better form,” Mr. Musk mentioned. “America can be solvent. The important applications that folks rely on will work, and it’s going to be a implausible future.”

Democrats have repeatedly criticized Mr. Musk’s effort to shrink the federal authorities, warning that important authorities companies can be minimize, and federal judges have struck down a few of his workforce’s steps to fireplace hundreds of federal staff. The interview appeared a part of a public-relations marketing campaign by Mr. Musk and his workforce to current their work on extra pleasant phrases.

“I’m blessed with 4 stunning youngsters, my spouse and I,” mentioned Tom Krause, the chief govt of Cloud Software program Group who’s main the division’s efforts to assessment the Treasury Division’s cost techniques. “However now we have an actual fiscal disaster, and this isn’t sustainable. And what’s worse, again to my youngsters and everybody else’s youngsters, we’re burdening them with that debt. And it’s solely going to develop.”

Mr. Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, mentioned his workforce was attempting to scale back the deficit by $1 trillion, and to chop $4 billion on daily basis. He mentioned he anticipated to perform “a lot of the work” inside the first 130 days, which aligns with the period of time a “particular authorities worker” is permitted to serve.

Mr. Musk was joined by seven males on his workforce, a gaggle that features Steve Davis, a longtime loyalist of Mr. Musk’s who largely handles the day by day operations of the division, and Joe Gebbia, a fellow billionaire and co-founder of Airbnb. Mr. Musk has been very seen, typically showing at President Trump’s facet, however most of his aides have stored low profiles. Mr. Davis, who labored for Mr. Musk at SpaceX and his social media platform X, had not participated in any interviews since he began working within the authorities.