The Department of Defense has received a list of Doge officials tasked with cutting 8% from next year's budget. “We welcome doges to the pentagon,” said Chief Pete Hegses. “And I would like to welcome Elon to the Pentagon soon.”
The Pentagon employs 3.7 million employees on a budget of over $850 billion, but has never passed an audit.
Tara Dougherty, CEO of defense software company Govini, worked as three former defense secretaries returning to Robert Gates. She says the biggest savings are seen in overhauling the arms acquisition process decades ago.
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Department of Defense Headquarters, Pentagram – File Photo. (Photo: Master Sergeant Ken Hammond, US Air Force.)
“We'll put a big Red Bull eye on the process of managing weapons systems and military platforms,” Dougherty said in an interview with Fox News. “The process of gaining defense is significantly broken. It's too late. That means the US is issuing missile purchases through fax machines. This is a spreadsheet to acquire nuclear capabilities platforms from production lines. I use sheets and data calls.”
As a result, the F-35 5th Generation Stealth Fighter Jets are unable to get out of Depot as they lack parts and are not producing what US defense industrial bases need. The next-generation InterContinental ballistic missiles, an important part of the nuclear triad, cost $35 billion more than the budget. Additionally, the costs of B-21 nuclear bombers are behind schedule.
“Many weapon systems and other capabilities in which ships, jets, tanks and departments rely on the military are so complicated that the Department of Defense doesn't really know where all of those parts actually come from. They have a supply chain. They use spreadsheets to manage the entire program, so they have foreign suppliers, or in some cases, important components like microelectronics in our military systems. “We can't see if there are Chinese suppliers. Doge, and the Trump administration, say this is no longer acceptable, and that's what they'll eradicate.”
National security adviser says Putin, Zelensky agrees, “Only President Trump can bring them to the table.”
The Pentagon employs 3.7 million employees and has a budget of over $850 billion. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Before the Doge team, the Navy is considering cutting fleets of frigates, but the Army is looking for savings by eliminating outdated drones and surplus vehicles.
Republican Sen. Roger Wicker says it's time.
“I am welcome as chairman of the Armed Services Committee and I am pleased to see Doge come to the Pentagon and help us cut the red tape, making the acquisition process more efficient and the dollar better,” Fox said. He said in an interview with Maria. Baltilomo.
However, not everyone is happy that Doge is coming to the Pentagon, where there are many classified systems and many secret information that the US enemies want to access.
“We've already seen this doge calling it a government inefficiency and causing terrifying confusion across the federal government,” Virginia's Eugene Vindman told CNN. . “This week they released categorized information about the US intelligence agency. They have access to American personal information, bank accounts and, frankly, such things that are not qualified to do. I'm going to the Department of Defense and sitting there with the internal systems and the US national security.”
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has discovered a code that links US financial payments to previously unwanted budget items, leaving them blank with nearly $4.7 trillion in payments. (Musk: Reuters/Money: istock/Trump: Getty)
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The Doge team is moving too fast at the expense of national security after purging 2,000 federal workers, including 350, from the Department of Energy. Many of these federal workers worked at the Pantex factory near Amarillo, Texas, reassembling one of the most sensitive jobs that required the highest level of security clearance: the nuclear warhead.
The administration came out last week and quickly found an Energy Department employee who oversees nuclear weapons and tried to rehire them.
At the Veterans Affairs Bureau, the agency announced the termination of more than 1,000 employees following the DOGE guidance. Veterans Affairs employees joined Democrats outside DC headquarters to protest Doge's actions at the VA last week.
