Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "Elon and I are completely aligned in terms of cutting waste and increasing accountability and transparency for the American people. I believe that this DOGE program ... is one of the most important audits of government we have seen."

"There's a big agenda and I think that there are gigantic cost savings for the American people here. I think it's unfortunate the way the media wants to lampoon what is going on. These are highly trained professionals. This is not some roving band going around doing things. This is methodical and it is going to yield big savings."