Trump Teases Bombshell DOGE Finding: 'What They Found Is Incredible'
March 4, 2025 by Tyler Durden
President Donald Trump teased another explosive revelation from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as Democrats and legacy media escalate their ongoing campaign against the cost-cutting initiative and its leader, Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
While speaking with the press aboard Air Force One en route to South Florida for the weekend, Trump said: "They found something today that's horrible,” adding. “You'll find out very soon. What they found is incredible."
Trump also gave Musk credit for his leadership at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has so far achieved an estimated savings of $140 billion, amounting to roughly $869.57 per taxpayer.
“Elon is fantastic,” the president said. “He's a patriot. He found millions of dollars of fraud.”
“He loves the country that's why he does it,” he added. Addressing speculation about Musk’s future, Trump responded to reporters, “I want him to stay as long as possible.”
The president also commented on the recent wave of violent attacks targeting Tesla vehicles and dealerships, incidents he has previously labeled as “terrorism.”
"It's a shame what they are doing with his car company," he said. "It's a great car, great product."
According to a since debunked Politico report citing unnamed sources, Trump has privately indicated to close associates that Musk plans to scale back his involvement as an advisor in the near future. While Musk and the White House denied the report, Trump told reporters on AF1 that "Elon is fantastic," but he has "a number of companies to run."
"I want him to stay as long as possible," said Trump. "There’s going to be a point where he’s going to have to leave."
Over the weekend, at a Wisconsin rally aimed at boosting voter turnout, Musk and DOGE volunteer Antonio Gracias disclosed that millions of noncitizens were granted Social Security numbers under former President Joe Biden’s administration. They presented a chart illustrating a consistent annual rise, peaking at over 2 million in FY 2024, which concluded on September 30. In both FY23 and FY25—the latter starting in October and running through September of this year—approximately 1 million noncitizens received Social Security numbers.
"None of this would have happened without President Trump," Gracias told Fox News. "President Trump had the courage to allow us to go across databases. He signed an executive order. It's never been done before, where agencies could talk to each other and databases could talk with each other."
"That allowed us to connect all this data, to find these people across the system, across the benefit system, all the way to the voting records. It really took a lot of courage," he added.
Now the question is; what's this 'horrible' thing DOGE found? And is it just a 'LOOK, SQUIRREL!' to distract from all the 'fun' we're having in response to new tariffs?
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A note on domestic production.....
I am retired from the refining industry, I worked for the largest oil refiner in N.A.
Just a few short years ago when we were fracking, we had more NatGas than we knew what to do with. We made NGL's from it (natural gas liquids) which were much safer to export than the vapor, but the processing took much of the profits. In some cases, NG was simply burned-off at the flare, just too much of it.
Our steel industry died presumably because of clean energy concerns. Coal-fired smelts wouldn't do.
Any nation's manufacturing base almost has to include steel. Any industry will have a use for steel, but no doubt it is the backbone of the industrialized nations. Our manufacturing disappeared with steelmaking's disappearance.
When we had NG prices so low we were practically giving it away, I never heard a peep about reviving our manufacturing base, our steelmaking. We had all those shuttered foundries ready to be fired-up with clean NG fuel. Nothing. Nada.
And now, with this unfriendly business climate, and no real base for our "re-realized" manufacturing dreams, the re-firing up of our economy is the concern? Huh?
Do you know the only steel the CCP has to use comes from the cubed automobiles sent to them? If we stopped sending scrap steel they couldn't make shit. That's the difference steel makes.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Another "not a fan of Tarriffs" journalist.