βTHE PUBLIC VOTER FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE PEOPLE VOTED FOR MAJOR GOVERNMENT REFORM, AND THATβS WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET.β - @elonmusk responds to criticism of how he is running DOGE.
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My critics, including many Democrats, accuse me of orchestrating a hostile, non-transparent government takeover. However, the public clearly voted for major government reform, which is exactly what they'll get. We're committed to transparency; our actions are posted on X and our website. We're implementing simple, basic checks and balances to ensure taxpayer money is used responsibly and correctly categorized. This isn't about individual judgment calls; it's about systemic improvements. Concerns about conflicts of interest, particularly regarding my past federal contracts, are addressed through our commitment to transparency and the implemented checks and balances. All our actions are public.
Speaker 0: Your detractors, mister Muskelet I've what? Including a lot of Democrats.
Speaker 1: I have detractors? You do, sir. I don't believe it.
Speaker 0: Say that you're orchestrating a hostile takeover of government and doing it in a non transparent way. What's your response to that criticism?
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, you couldn't ask for a stronger mandate from from the public. The public voted, you know, that we we do have a majority of the public vote voting for president Trump, won the house, won the senate. The people voted for major government reform. There should be no doubt about that. That was on the campaign.
The president spoke about that at every rally. The people voted for for major government reform, and that's what people are gonna get. They're gonna get what they voted for. And and a lot of times that, you know, people that don't get what they voted for, but in this presidency, they are gonna get what they voted for. And that's what democracy is all about.
Speaker 0: Mister Vasquez, the White House says that you will identify and excuse yourself from any conflicts of interest that you may have. Does that mean that you are are in effect policing yourself? What are the checks and balances that are in place to ensure that there is accountability and transparency? Well,
Speaker 1: we we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible. In fact, our actions we post our actions to the the Doge handle, on x, and to the the Doge website. So all of our actions, which are are maximally transparent. In fact, I don't think there's been I I don't know the case that where where, an organization has been more transparent than the Doge organization. K.
And and so, you know and and the kind of things we're doing are, I think, very, very simple and basic. They're they're not we're we're you know, what I mentioned, for for example, about treasury, just making sure that that payments that go out, taxpayer money that goes out, is categorized correctly, that the that the the payment is explained, that organizations on the do not pay list, which are takes a lot to get there, that actually are not paid, which currently they are paid. These these are these are not individual judgment decisions. These are about simply having sensible checks and balances in the system itself to ensure that taxpayer money is spread well. So it's got nothing to do with, like, say, a contract with some company of mine at all.
Speaker 0: But if there is a conflict in of interest when it comes to you, yourself, for instance, you've received billions of dollars in federal contracts when it comes to the Pentagon, for instance, which the president, I know, has directed you to look into Yeah. Are you policing yourself in that? Is there any sort of accountability check and balance in place that would provide any transparency for the American people? Well, all of our actions are are, sec.
