{"id":18685,"date":"2025-04-11T03:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/in-cabinet-meeting-musk-seems-to-drastically-lower-doges-savings-goal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T03:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:28:54","slug":"in-cabinet-meeting-musk-seems-to-drastically-lower-doges-savings-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/in-cabinet-meeting-musk-seems-to-drastically-lower-doges-savings-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"In Cabinet Meeting, Musk Seems to Drastically Lower DOGE\u2019s Savings Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While stumping for Donald J. Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign, Elon Musk said he could cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. After Mr. Trump took office and placed Mr. Musk in charge of the budget-slashing so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Mr. Musk lowered that projection by half, to $1 trillion in the upcoming fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Mr. Musk appeared to set his group\u2019s goal lower still.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to announce that we anticipate savings in \u201926 from reduction of waste and fraud by $150 billion,\u201d Mr. Musk told Mr. Trump, referring to the fiscal year, which runs from the beginning of October 2025 to the end of September 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk\u2019s group has slashed budgets and fired thousands of workers around Washington, but so far the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/doge.gov\/savings\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">DOGE website<\/a> indicates that it remains far from reaching his goal of $1 trillion in savings next year. As of Thursday, the site claimed $150 billion in savings, with an itemized list of some of the purported cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was unclear if Mr. Musk meant to say that the $150 billion was merely what his team had found so far \u2014 meaning that $1 trillion in savings was still possible \u2014 or if that $150 billion was all it expected to find.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A White House official said $1 trillion in savings remained \u201cthe goal.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unlike a previous cabinet meeting, during which Mr. Trump had Mr. Musk speak at the outset, Thursday\u2019s meeting began with the president asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to speak. Mr. Musk spoke later, and briefly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his remarks, Mr. Musk said that he answered someone who asked how he finds fraud in government by saying, \u201cActually, just go in any direction \u2014 that\u2019s how you find it.\u201d He described it as a \u201ctarget-rich environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the website that Mr. Musk\u2019s group has used to tout its savings <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000010047426\/elon-musks-team-is-less-transparent-and-still-making-big-errors.html\" title=\"\">has been plagued by errors<\/a>, including triple-counting the same cancellations and claiming credit for cutting programs that ended under President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk\u2019s critics outside the administration \u2014 including Stephen K. Bannon, the far-right provocateur and former senior Trump White House official \u2014 have said publicly that the cost-cutting effort is directionally correct, but that Mr. Musk is unlikely to achieve $1 trillion in cuts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/musk-doge-drops-goal.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While stumping for Donald J. 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