Congressman Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) says President-elect Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) commission could receive “massive bipartisan cooperation” in the new year, at least when it comes to defense spending cuts. He said that there is a sex.
“When it comes to defense, I think it's going to take a lot of bipartisan cooperation to strengthen our defense and bring it down at a value,” Khanna said on ABC Sunday morning.
President Trump has nominated billionaire Elon Musk, a close campaign ally, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE.
Musk has been highly critical of defense spending.
“Our defense budget is pretty huge. It's $1 trillion,” he said.Said it at the eventlast month. “The interest on the debt we owe is now higher than the defense budget. This is not sustainable.”
And Mr. Musk posted about Xraised concerns aboutThe F-35 fighter program has long been under intense scrutiny due to its high cost, production delays and unreliability.
But there are other areas where Democrats, Musk and Ramaswamy are likely to fight over DOGE.
The two entrepreneurs talked about using DOGE to reduce spending by $2 trillion a year, which is nearly impossible.
“These guys are going to open their eyes,” one Republican congressman told The Hill candidly on condition of anonymity after Musk and Ramaswamy met with Republicans last week.
