{"id":2400522,"date":"2025-02-07T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-sends-doge-to-pentagon-to-do-what-they-did-with-usaid-only-bigger\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T19:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T00:54:51","slug":"trump-sends-doge-to-pentagon-to-do-what-they-did-with-usaid-only-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-sends-doge-to-pentagon-to-do-what-they-did-with-usaid-only-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Sends DOGE to Pentagon to Do What They Did With USAID Only Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-sends-doge-to-pentagon-to-do-what-they-did-with-usaid-only-bigger%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2400522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/purdue-university-backtracks-on-mandatory-white-privilege-class-for-music-students-after-outcry\/\" title=\"Purdue University Backtracks On Mandatory \u2018White Privilege\u2019 Class For Music Students After Outcry\">recent announcement<\/a>, President Donald Trump \u200drevealed that Elon \u2062Musk&#8217;s\u2062 &#8220;Department of Government Efficiency&#8221; will\u200d be focusing on \u200dauditing teh Department of Defense as part\u2063 of efforts to identify wasteful\u2064 spending \u200cin various \u200bgovernment\u200c sectors, including education and military budgets. Trump asserted that trillions of dollars \u200care perhaps being wasted, some of which may be illegal. During a press conference \u2064with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru \u2062Ishiba, Trump expressed confidence in Musk&#8217;s team, stating they are <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">uncovering significant corruption<\/a> and inefficiency within government departments. He \u2064emphasized the importance\u200c of clarity and accountability in spending taxpayer\u200b dollars. Additionally, Defense\u200b Secretary pete Hegseth \u200cannounced \u2064plans for the Pentagon \u2062to successfully pass an audit, as it has failed the past\u2064 seven attempts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-targets-failing-colleges-and-for-profits-with-new-regulations-2\/\" title=\"New regulations by the Biden administration aim to address struggling colleges and for-profit institutions.\">ensuring financial accountability<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Budget Axe Brigade has been summoned to go to war.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said Friday that Elon Musk&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-just-got-legendary-letter-trumps-doj-threats-doge-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> will turn its focus to the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to be looking at the Department of Education, we&rsquo;re going to be looking at even our military. We&rsquo;re going to be looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-the-real-reason-schools-are-still-closed\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: The Real Reason Schools Are Still Closed\">tremendous amounts<\/a> of money &hellip; being spent on things that bear no relationship to anything and have no value,&rdquo; Trump said, according to a video posted to X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re talking about trillions of dollars,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;It will be, in the end, trillions of dollars being absolutely wasted and perhaps illegally &mdash; I would say certainly, in many cases, illegally, but perhaps illegally overall.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: &#127482;&#127480; President Trump says Elon Musk&rsquo;s DOGE will audit the Pentagon&rsquo;s spending.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, they failed their 7th consecutive financial audit, unable to account for $824 billion. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5AG9Q3mcuP\">pic.twitter.com\/5AG9Q3mcuP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatcherGuru\/status\/1887952823154844040?\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very proud of the job that this group of young people, generally young people, but very smart people, have been doing,&rdquo; he said in reference to the DOGE team. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re doing it at my insistence. It would be a lot easier not to do it, but we have to take some of these things apart to find the corruption, and we found tremendous corruption.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During his news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Trump said Musk&rsquo;s analysts will investigate the &ldquo;Pentagon, Education, just about everything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to go through everything,&rdquo; Trump said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/07\/us-news\/trump-says-elon-musks-doge-team-doing-a-great-job-will-look-at-slashing-pentagon-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was so bad, with what we just went through &mdash; with this horrible situation we just went through, and I guess 97 percent of the people have been dismissed,&rdquo; Trump said, referring to cuts at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/usaid-utterly-obliterated-rubio-announces-97-staff-gone-africa-asia--20-staffers-total\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Agency for International Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was very, very unfortunate. You&rsquo;re not going to find anything like that, but you&rsquo;re going to find a lot. And I&rsquo;ve instructed him to go check out Education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military. And you know, sadly, you&rsquo;ll find some things that are pretty bad,&rdquo; the president added.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing what he expects at the Pentagon with recent staff cuts at USAID, Trump said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think proportionally you&rsquo;re going to see anything like we just saw.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-launches-first-kind-task-force-protect-christianity-leaves-trump-hating-lib-christians-hard-spot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> praised Musk&rsquo;s team.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Elon is doing a great job. He&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-to-newsmax-silencing-by-media-rigged-the-election\/\" title=\"Donald ... to Newsmax: &#039;Silencing&#039; by Media Rigged the Election\">finding tremendous fraud<\/a> and corruption and waste,&rdquo; he said, making clear that Musk is not going rogue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell him to go here or there and he does it. He&rsquo;s got a very capable group of people. They&rsquo;ll ask questions and they&rsquo;ll see immediately, if somebody gets tongue-tied, that they&rsquo;re either crooked or don&rsquo;t know what they&rsquo;re doing,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will pick out a target and I&rsquo;ll say, &lsquo;Go in.&rsquo; There could be areas that we don&rsquo;t, but I think everything&rsquo;s fertile. You know, we&rsquo;re a government. We have to be open,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to X, Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hegseth-speaks-15-year-military-recruiting-drought-lifted-youth-want-serve-america-first-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> said that on his watch, the Pentagon will pass audits for a change after failing the last seven.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Pete Hegseth just told Pentagon personnel that a massive audit is coming.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are going to focus heavily to ensure that at a bare minimum, by the end of four years, the Pentagon passes a clean audit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe we are accountable for every dollar we spend and every&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TlDECg2jQn\">pic.twitter.com\/TlDECg2jQn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; George (@BehizyTweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BehizyTweets\/status\/1887892486003245297?\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are going to focus heavily to ensure that, at a bare minimum, by the end of four years, the Pentagon passes a clean audit. The American taxpayers deserve that,&rdquo; Hegseth said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They deserve to know where their 850 billion dollars go, how it&rsquo;s spent, and make sure it&rsquo;s spent wisely. It used to be that if you called for an audit, somehow you were undermining the department. I believe the exact opposite,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe we are accountable for every dollar we spend. And every dollar of waste we find or redundancy is a dollar we can invest somewhere else, as President Trump has committed, directly to rebuilding our nation&rsquo;s military,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! ( opts[inputs[i]]=document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"' + inputs[i] + '\"]' ).value ) ) { \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .required-message' ).style.display='block'; \t\t\t\t\t\treturn; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction input[type=\"submit\"]' ).style.display='none'; \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).src=firefly_loading_gif_url; \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).style.display='inline-block';  \t\t\t\t\tconsole.log( 'ma subbing' );  \t\t\t\t\tif( firefly_post_id ) opts['post_id']=firefly_post_id;  \t\t\t\t\t\/* Send the data using post with element id name and name2*\/ \t\t\t\t\tvar posting=jQuery.post( firefly_ajax_url, opts );  \t\t\t\t\t\/* Alerts the results *\/ \t\t\t\t\tposting.done( function( response ) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif( response.success ) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log( response.data ); \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).style.display='none'; \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-confirm' ).style.display='block';  \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdataLayer.push( { 'event': 'submit-correction' } ); \t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> \t     \t\t\t\t\t\t     \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script>console.log(\"ad slot (BA1)\")<\/script> \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<style> \t\t\t \t\t\t.insticator-unit.type-commenting{margin: 0 10px 25px 10px}@media screen and (max-width:1060px){#div-insticator-ad-cmt-1, #div-insticator-ad-cmt-2, #div-insticator-ad-cmt-3, #div-insticator-ad-cmt-4{margin: 0 auto 25px auto !important;}}#div-insticator-ad-cmt-1, #div-insticator-ad-cmt-2, #div-insticator-ad-cmt-3, #div-insticator-ad-cmt-4{height: 280px !important; width: 336px !important} \t\t<\/style>\n<div class=\"insticator-unit type-commenting\">\n<div class=\"insticator-ads\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t<script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\t\t\tif ( ! getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\t\t\tInsticator.ad.loadAd(\"div-insticator-ad-cmt-1\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tInsticator.ad.loadAd(\"div-insticator-ad-cmt-2\"); \t\t\t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"div-insticator-ad-cmt-1\").remove() \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"div-insticator-ad-cmt-2\").remove() \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t<\/script> \t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"insticator-ads additional\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t<script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\t\t\tif ( ! getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\t\t\tInsticator.ad.loadAd(\"div-insticator-ad-cmt-3\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tInsticator.ad.loadAd(\"div-insticator-ad-cmt-4\"); \t\t\t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"div-insticator-ad-cmt-3\").remove() \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"div-insticator-ad-cmt-4\").remove() \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t<\/script> \t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Budget Axe Brigade has been called to action. On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that Elon Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency will shift its attention to the Department of Defense. &#8220;We will examine the Department of Education and our military, scrutinizing significant expenditures that lack value,&#8221; Trump stated in a video shared on X. He emphasized the potential for trillions of dollars being wasted, possibly illegally. <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the Pentagon failed its seventh consecutive financial audit, unable to account for $824 billion. Trump expressed pride in Musk&#8217;s team for uncovering corruption and waste within government spending during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. He instructed them to investigate various departments thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assured Pentagon personnel that they would work towards passing audits after previous failures, emphasizing accountability for taxpayer dollars spent on defense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2400523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Musk-DOGE.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[23466,3761,3634],"class_list":["post-2400522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-doge","tag-pentagon","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Musk-DOGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400526,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400522\/revisions\/2400526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}