Steve Bannon said Government Efficiency (DOGE) should adjust its target of reducing trillions of dollars in federal waste and reducing the proposed amount to the $1 billion category to curb inflation.
“This isn't a smear to Doge. I love what Doge is trying to do, but waste, fraud and abuse won't be worth a trillion dollars. Bannon said on Friday's episode of his Warroom podcast.
Instead, he proposed that the agency would solidify numbers within billions of billions to cut spending to drive off attacks from Democrats.
“We need to cut federal spending. It's driving inflation, driving everything, and I think numbers will get worse quickly, they'll get worse quickly, and Democrats will use it against President Trump,” Bannon told viewers, claiming that “absolute numbers” are needed. Highlighted by Mediate.
“Is it $25 billion? $50 billion, $100 billion? $10 billion? I don't really care what the numbers are now,” he added. “What is the absolute number? Let's place a bet on the ground.”
Trump has acknowledged an increase in inflation that has impacted consumers across the board, but has denounced the rise in previous administrations. Last month, consumer expectations for inflation rose to their highest level in over a year.
Anyway, the president is confident in Musk's ability to find $1 trillion in federal waste, but pointed out that it doesn't necessarily mean that everything will be done temporarily.
“They're not going to find a bent contract, like they are. You know it's bent like hell,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.
“And I think this will be more than I can find,” he continued. “But I think he'll find a trillion dollars.”
Bannon, a former Trump advisor and Musk critic, denounced the motives and methods of the tech giant.
“Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant,” he said previously. Interviewed The website is unherd. “He wants to impose his extraordinary experimentation and play as a god, without respecting the history, traditions and values of the country.”
During the war room segment on Friday, he raised doubts about all the high-tech CEO motives seen with Trump recently.
“We talk about de-platforming, all the high-tech brothers running around President Trump and everyone around President Trump.
“As long as you can throw them, don't trust any of them,” he added.
Musk's role in the Second Trump administration has spurred widespread anger towards his push to reduce the federal workforce and the scope of government, and has fostered protests across the country.
