DeSantis has some serious political advice for Elon Musk to ensure a 'monumental impact'



Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) offered Elon Musk some political advice following the business magnate's announcement that he is starting the "America Party," a new political party Musk claims will counter the "Republican/Democrat Uniparty" amid his ongoing feud with President Donald Trump.

During a Monday afternoon press conference, DeSantis stated, "I think Elon Musk has been one of the most innovative entrepreneurs, not just in our country's history, but probably in world history. And I think he's done a lot and has a lot more left in the tank, obviously."

'If somebody as significant as Elon wants to get in the game on that, he will have a, I think, very consequential impact.'

DeSantis praised Musk for his efforts in the 2024 election and for initiating the Department of Government Efficiency, a concept that the governor has also adopted at the state level to reduce Florida's budget.

While DeSantis noted that he is "a big fan" of Musk's cost-cutting efforts, he issued a serious warning about his third-party aspirations and offered some advice.

The governor explained that a third party would likely result in Democratic candidates winning elections, particularly if Musk plans to fund Senate and House candidates in competitive races.

"As it is now, even if somehow a third party could elect some people that were so-called fiscal conservatives, I don't think it would even move the needle even if they got elected," DeSantis said. "And we know that they wouldn't get elected because it's really one of two parties, so you're either just taking votes away from one side or the other."

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He stated that the Republican Party is facing a significant issue with political candidates making promises on the campaign trail that they do not keep once elected, particularly regarding reining in the nation's out-of-control budget.

Instead, the Florida governor argued that Musk could have a "monumental impact" on the nation if he focused on working with state legislators to add a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution, which he noted could be done without congressional approval.

"I don't think just electing a few better people is going to change [the nation's] trajectory," DeSantis continued. "You need to do a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. You can do it through the states; you can do it through Article Five. We've got 28 states that have approved this. There's another four or five that are on the docket. Once you hit 34, then you write an amendment, and then the states are able to ratify that."

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The governor also called for Musk to push for term limits for members of Congress.

DeSantis stated that he is confident Musk would be successful in implementing these changes.

"That is achievable. And especially, if somebody as significant as Elon wants to get in the game on that, he will have a, I think, very consequential impact on that, and I think would be just the type that could bring this across the finish line," DeSantis remarked.

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Elon Musk expresses regret over comments about Trump after deleting most provocative tweets: 'Love to see this'



Days after calling Elon Musk "disrespectful" and indicating he had "no intention of speaking to him," President Donald Trump said of Musk during a press conference on Monday, "We had a great relationship and I wish him well — very well, actually."

Their relationship was strained to the point of possibly breaking last week — first by a dispute over the One Big Beautiful Bill and then by a subsequent exchange of unpleasantries and threats, which prompted some tertiary characters to choose sides, others to reveal their previously dormant hostilities, and a handful of prominent allies to call for a coalition-preserving détente.

Musk responded to Trump's well-wishes on X with a heart emoji, prompting further speculation that a reconciliation might be possible and that Musk, who expended over $270 million last year in hopes of getting the president elected, might ultimately be brought back into the fold.

On Wednesday morning, the world's richest man went a step further, expressing remorse for attacking the president and suggesting that some of his remarks were out of bounds.

"I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week," tweeted Musk. "They went too far."

While Musk did not specify which tweets "went too far," the tweets he chose to delete provide a fairly good idea.

The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive tweeted last week that "the real reason" the Epstein files have not been made public is because Trump was somehow implicated in them. He has since deleted that tweet.

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"That's called 'old news,' that's been old news, that has been talked about for years," Trump said on Saturday when asked about that particular accusation in an NBC News interview. "Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had nothing to do with it. It's old news."

Musk also deleted a post where he said, "Yes," in response to Malaysian commentator Ian Miles Cheong's statement, "Trump should be impeached."

'Let's stay focused on saving our country.'

Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Musk's quasi-apology was well received online.

"Love to see this," wrote Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R).

Former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer wrote to Musk, "Thank you for doing this[.] Your @X purchase, work at @DOGE and massive achievements at @Tesla @Starlink etc you have been instrumental in advancing free speech, government accountability and industry advancement."

Conservative activist Scott Presler similarly thanked Musk, noting, "We are grateful for BOTH of you. Let's stay focused on saving our country & holding the House in 2026. We can do this."

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch emphasized that political differences aside, Trump and Musk "surely know and agree that the Left want to jail and kill them both."

To Fitton's point, a recent poll conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute revealed that 56% of liberals said someone would "be at least somewhat justified" in assassinating Trump. This figure includes the 14.1% of liberals who said his murder would be "completely justified."

Liberals apparently would similarly be content to see Elon Musk murdered — 50.2% said his slaying would be at least somewhat justified, including 10.7% who said it would be completely justified.

Tesla stock rose Wednesday following Musk's expression of regret.

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Russ Vought gives Glenn Beck hint about where things stand between Trump and Musk



President Donald Trump and Elon Musk traded jibes on Thursday, which escalated over the course of the afternoon and culminated in threats of creating a new political party as well as of SpaceX contract cancellations.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck spoke on Friday to Russell Vought, the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, about the spat as well as about the president's "big, beautiful bill."

'But look, Glenn, we're moving forward, and Elon has been an important ally and patriot throughout all of this, and we've got a job to do.'

Beck refrained from beating around the bush and asked at the outset whether a reconciliation was imminent — not legislatively but between the world's richest man and the world's most powerful leader. Vought responded with a strong hint.

Prior to Vought jumping onto the call, Beck noted, "Boy, yesterday was just a wild, wild ride. And I hate to see it. You know, kids don't like to see Mommy and Daddy fight — and they're both so important. We need both of these guys, but we also need the truth on the big, beautiful bill."

Beck had also posted on X on Thursday that the disagreement between Trump and Musk was "sad to see" and that he hoped the two "patriots" who "have done heroic things" can make amends and help America "see our way forward to find a win win."

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With Vought on the phone on Friday, Beck asked, "Yesterday was a tough day. Do you know — has the president had his phone call yet? Are they coming back together?"

"Well," responded Vought, "I think the president made some comments to the press this morning that, you know, he's not looking to have a phone call any time soon."

"I think he expressed disappointment yesterday with regard to ... some of the comments made by Elon," continued Vought. "But look, Glenn, we're moving forward, and Elon has been an important ally and patriot throughout all of this, and we've got a job to do."

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The OMB director stressed that the priority now is getting the bill across the finish line, making improvements where possible.

Whereas Vought was diplomatic in his response, when asked whether he had a call scheduled with Musk for later in the day, Trump told ABC News on Friday morning, "You mean the man who has lost his mind?"

The president suggested he was "not particularly" interested in having that conversation at the moment.

Musk now appears willing to mend fences.

When hedge fund manager Bill Ackman suggested that Trump and Musk "should make peace for the benefit of our great country" and that "we are much stronger together than apart," Musk responded, "You're not wrong."

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Speech foes face heat: Trump's FTC probes Media Matters, left-wing groups for possible antitrust violations



President Donald Trump's Federal Trade Commission has reportedly taken aim at leftist advertising cartels that allegedly coordinated a boycott to starve conservative media outlets and squash free speech online.

According to several reports, the FTC launched investigations into approximately a dozen media and advertising groups for potentially violating antitrust laws.

'These so-called "ratings outfits" are the left's latest attempt to silence conservatives.'

The agency's new chairman, Andrew Ferguson, previously expressed concerns about advertisers coordinating to ban certain ideas.

During an April antitrust conference, he said, "I am deeply concerned ... if advertisers either get in a room together and say, 'We're not going to do advertising next to this idea,' or they say, 'We're going to agree that this third party decides which ideas get advertisement and which don't.'"

"Drying up the advertising will dry up the idea. So the risk of an advertiser boycott is a pretty serious risk to the free exchange of ideas," he declared.

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Ferguson's concerns stem from an ongoing dispute between Media Matters and Elon Musk's X.

In 2023, X sued Media Matters for defamation, claiming the site released a report that misrepresented the user experience to push advertisers to boycott the social media platform. The report warned advertisers that their content would appear next to white supremacist hashtags, causing many to pull their ads from X.

The FTC's investigation, as reported by the New York Times, seeks to determine whether the media and advertising groups, including Media Matters and Ad Fontes Media, coordinated to prompt an advertiser boycott.

Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Logan Spena told Blaze News, "Antitrust laws are important tools for countering coordinated censorship. Individual businesses can decide what to say or what not to say — the First Amendment protects them too. But it does not protect coordinated conduct in restraint of trade, including trade that involves speech."

"As the Supreme Court said back in 1945, 'Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the Constitution, but freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not,'" Spena continued. "We hope the FTC will ensure that antitrust laws are vigorously enforced to the fullest extent consistent with the Constitution."

Dan Schneider, the vice president of the Media Research Center's Free Speech America, told Blaze News that he is hopeful Ferguson's appointment will lead to positive change.

"These so-called 'ratings outfits' are the left's latest attempt to silence conservatives," Schneider stated. "They collude with and conspire against advertisers, media outlets, and advertising firms to eliminate conservative media. It's not just wrong and un-American; it is illegal. Fortunately, we finally have an FTC chairman who believes in the rule of law and is prepared to stop colluders."

The FTC declined a request for comment from the NYT.

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Adweek confirmed the Times' reporting, stating that the FTC sent the groups Civil Investigative Demand letters requiring them to turn over documents and respond to inquiries.

Ad Fontes Media CEO Vanessa Otero told the outlet, "They're requesting pretty much anything pertinent to our business since we started."

She claimed the FTC's demands were "excessive" and "overzealous."

"Businesses have rights to not advertise next to stuff they find crappy," Otero continued. "And no one is colluding with anybody about this."

Otero stated that Ad Fontes Media will comply with the agency's requests.

Media Matters confirmed to Adweek that it is currently under investigation.

Media Matters President Angelo Carusone stated, "The Trump administration has been defined by naming right-wing media figures to key posts and abusing the power of the federal government to bully political opponents and silence critics."

"It's clear that's exactly what's happening here, given Media Matters' history of holding those same figures to account. These threats won't work; we remain steadfast to our mission," Carusone added.

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Elon Musk Drops 'Epstein' Nuke on Trump — but Here's What's Wrong with It
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Elon Musk Drops 'Epstein' Nuke on Trump — but Here's What's Wrong with It

 

'One big psy op': Musk rips liberal media for hypocrisy over Cory Booker's 'Nazi salute'



Democratic Senator Cory Booker (N.J.) gave a fiery speech on Saturday at the California Democratic Party's 2025 state convention in Anaheim. Following his remarks, the senator pressed his hand to his heart, then extended it in a salute to the crowd.

Whereas Democrats and elements of the liberal media previously expressed horror at the sight of Elon Musk making the exact same gesture during a speech in January — some characterizing it as a Nazi salute — they did not appear similarly troubled when Booker did the same thing.

Musk joined Republicans and other critics in highlighting the selective outrage over the weekend, noting, "Fate loves irony, but hates hypocrisy."

A tale of two salutes

Musk gave an excited speech in January at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., following President Donald Trump's second inauguration.

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"This was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilization," said Musk, who previously admitted to having Asperger's, a syndrome on the autism spectrum. "This one really mattered. Thank you for making it happen!"

The billionaire then slammed his chest, then saluted both the crowd and the American flag, adding, "My heart goes out to you."

Some of the media outfits and Democrats who previously painted Trump and his allies as fascists in the lead-up to the election seized on the gesture as confirmation of their fears.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) stated that "regardless of any justification, his salute last night at Donald Trump's inauguration rally can only be interpreted as a Seig [sic] Heil salute that is synonymous with Nazi support for Hitler."

"Jews around the world are scared because of the contemptible rise in antisemitism, and Musk's conduct only increases the problem," continued Goldman. "Musk must issue an immediate apology, and President Trump must disavow and denounce his actions."

'All sides should give one another a bit of grace.'

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.) claimed on MSNBC, "Elon Musk did [the] heil Hitler salute. He did. And of course he did."

Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York claimed that it was a "Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity."

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The media similarly feigned horror and characterized the gesture as a Nazi salute. For instance:

Musk noted at the time, "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."

Despite the apparent eagerness on the left to frame Musk as a Nazi, some proved willing to admit that the narrative was bogus.

The Anti-Defamation League, for instance, stated that Musk "made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute."

"In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath," added the ADL.

Hypocrisy

Booker spoke Saturday at a convention attended by California Democrats including Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Robert Garcia. Garcia was among those who condemned Musk for his gesture earlier this year.

"Real change does not come from Washington. It comes from communities. It comes from the streets," said Booker. "It comes from the people who's standing up and have shown over and over again — against the powerful, against the elected, against the rich — that the power of the people is greater than the people in power."

Booker made the Musk-styled heartfelt gesture after whipping up the crowd, then walked off stage.

Footage of Booker's gesture made the rounds online, prompting comparisons between his gesture and the one previously made by Musk. Critics, observing that the gesticulations were virtually identical, suggested that the absence of pearl-clutching and condemnations from the media or Democrats this time around was further evidence of their hypocrisy and double standards.

Libs of TikTok, for instance, noted that when Musk made the gesture, Newsweek ran an article titled "80 Years After Auschwitz, Elon Musk Keeps the Fascist Salute Alive," but painted Booker as a man wrongfully accused in an article titled "MAGA Accuses Democratic Senator Cory Booker of Doing 'Nazi Salute.'"

'The mainstream media is totally corrupt.'

Newsweek performed some mental gymnastics in its coverage of the reaction to Booker's gesture, writing that "the gesture is similar to the ones made by Musk and Bannon but not made as forcefully, the video shows."

"Pure trash propaganda," wrote Libs of TikTok.

Musk responded, "Legacy media like Newsweek lie relentlessly."

"Here's a list of all the news networks who have not covered Cory Booker's salute: - NYTimes - CNN - Washington Post - MSNBC - NPR - USA Today - Reuters - Axios - ABC News," wrote former nuclear scientist for the Department of Energy Matt Van Swol. "Every single one of them wrote stories on Elon Musk's 'salute' … … do you get it yet?"

"Legacy media is one big psy op," responded Musk.

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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) tweeted, "The mainstream media is totally corrupt."

"In January, Democrats and the Left were hyperventilating about this false smear of Elon and the stenographers in the media went to work," wrote Stefanik.

"Neither Elon Musk or @CoryBooker are giving the Nazi salute. Americans see thru this obvious and destructive double standard by the totally broken media and Democrat Party."

"If Elon Musk is a Nazi for doing this gesture ... Cory Booker is one too," wrote Angela Belcamino, host of "Last Week on X." "Sorry, I don't make the rules."

A spokeswoman for Booker suggested in a statement to Forbes that Booker's gesture was somehow different from Musk's, writing, "Cory Booker was obviously just waving to the crowd. Anyone who claims his wave is the same as Elon Musk’s gesture is operating in bad faith. The differences between the two are obvious to anyone without an agenda."

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Bill Gates accuses Musk of killing children, destabilizing foreign nations with USAID cuts



Bill Gates appears desperate to convince the world of his magnanimity and of his fellow billionaire Elon Musk's maleficence.

Gates, 69, recently went on a liberal media tour, telling late night script-reader Stephen Colbert, the New York Times Magazine, the Financial Times, and other outfits reflexively receptive to his preferred narrative all about his intention to spend $200 billion on philanthropy before closing down the Gates Foundation — which underwent a name change in January in the wake of reporting about Gates' relationship with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and then the billionaire's divorce.

According to the New York Times Magazine, this potential charitable giving is especially important after the Trump administration's termination of programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development that Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized "did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States."

Gates, whose foundation's relationship with USAID has been likened to a "money-laundering scheme — one that 'cleans' both wealth and power for people like Gates while sustaining thousands of projects, employees, and placeholders in organizations that rely entirely on a circular flow of public funds" — suggested to the Financial Times that diseases such as measles, HIV, and polio could see a massive resurgence as a result of the USAID cuts championed by Musk.

Elements of the scientific community have furnished Gates with hypotheticals and estimates to lean on. For instance, a preprint study published by the Lancet and amplified by Nature, despite its lack of peer review, suggested that a:

complete cessation of US funding without replacement by other sources of funding would lead to dramatic increases in deaths from 2025-2040: 15.2 (9.3-20.8) million additional AIDS deaths, 2.2 (1.5-1.9) million additional TB deaths, 7.9 million additional child deaths from other causes, 40-55 million additional unplanned pregnancies and 12-16 million unsafe abortions.

"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," said Gates.

'They were put in the woodchipper.'

"I'm not even sure the administration understands what is going on in the field because we do have, for the first time in 25 years, we have more children dying," continued Gates. "Instead of it going down, it's now going up. And unless we reverse pretty quickly, that will be over a million additional deaths."

Gates suggested that while his foundation will spend roughly $10 billion a year on global health, with a focus on vaccines and maternal and child health, this private philanthropy would not make up for the American taxpayer dollars saved through USAID cuts.

The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, began exposing in December that USAID had blown taxpayer funds on anti-American, leftist causes and radical initiatives.

The administration discovered, for example, that the USAID previously blew:

  • $45 million on DEI scholarships in Burma;
  • $1.5 million "to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities";
  • $6 million to "transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles";
  • $19 million for two separate "inclusion" programs in Vietnam;
  • $2 million on sex-change activism in Guatemala;
  • $20 million for a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq;
  • $2 million for "activity to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender-affirming health care" in Guatemala;
  • $37.7 million to study HIV among "sex workers (SWS), their clients, and transgender (TG) people" in South Africa; and
  • $1 million to assist disabled people in Tajikistan to become "climate leaders."

"Unfortunately, you know, there was a weekend where it was decided they [USAID] were criminals and they were put in the woodchipper, and so we lost a lot of capacity there. Now, we can get it back," Gates told Colbert. "Eventually, Congress is the one who will have the final word on this."

Gates suggested to the New York Times Magazine that he is counting on Congress to once again undermine the Trump agenda where funding is concerned but realizes "the cuts are so dramatic that even if we get some restored, we're going to have a tough time."

The billionaire also expressed confidence that future administrations will not similarly cut back foreign aid, noting that he sees it "as a four- to six-year interruption."

Elon Musk, responding to another interview where Gates claimed the DOGE would cost two million lives, wrote, "Gates is a huge liar."

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Leftists normalizing 'assassination culture' — majority view violence against Trump as justified: Report



The Network Contagion Research Institute released a disturbing report on Monday that found "assassination culture" is on the rise among those who self-identify as politically left of center.

The report, "Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence," highlighted survey results that found many leftists could at least somewhat justify acts of violence against Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.

'These attitudes are not fringe — they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse.'

"A broader 'assassination culture' appears to be emerging within segments of the U.S. public on the extreme left," it read, calling the trend "troubling."

The survey questioned 1,264 U.S. residents, and 31% and 38% stated that "it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively."

Those percentages increased drastically — 48% and 55% — when isolating "left of center" respondents, which were those who described themselves as either "far left," "liberal," or "slightly liberal."

More than 4% and nearly 6% of respondents stated it would be "completely justified" to murder Musk and Trump, respectively. When just looking at those described as left of center, those responses jumped to 9% and 13%.

Forty percent of those surveyed stated that it would be "at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest," the report found.

"These attitudes are not fringe — they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse," the NCRI's report read. "This report points to disturbingly high levels of support for political violence, particularly targeting President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Across survey responses, nearly one-third of respondents — and a significantly higher share of left-leaning respondents — expressed some degree of justification for acts of lethal violence."

The report, which tracks the assassination culture trend starting with the December shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, attributed the shift in part to social media.

"Beyond the use of Luigi Mangione as a memeified symbol of political violence, some users have even made explicit calls for acts of violence against Trump, Musk, and government institutions. Some of these threats explicitly echo the 'Deny, Defend, Depose' mantra inscribed by Mangione on the shell casing that killed Brian Thompson," it stated.

The report found that social media platforms "play a strong predictive role in amplifying this culture," noting that online references to Mangione "now function as coded endorsements of political violence, cloaked in irony, memeification, and plausible deniability."

"In these ecosystems, violence is not just justified — it is stylized, gamified, and embedded within a broader ideological narrative," the report found.

Joel Finkelstein, the lead author of the NCRI's report, told Fox News Digital, "What was formerly taboo culturally has become acceptable."

"We are seeing a clear shift — glorification, increased attempts and changing norms — all converging into what we define as 'assassination culture,'" he stated.

Finkelstein noted that NCRI is "not an anti-free speech organization," and he does not believe censorship will end assassination culture.

"If leaders on the left explicitly condemn these trends and reassert moral norms, they can dismantle this culture quickly," he continued. "It's about reminding people there is a future worth striving for that doesn't involve glorifying political violence."

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RFK Jr., McMahon share plans to slash government bloat with Sara Gonzales of BlazeTV



In an interview with BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon shared how their respective agencies are working to eliminate bureaucracy.

On a Monday episode of "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered," Kennedy and McMahon detailed the excessive bloat they have discovered at HHS and the Education Department.

  

Kennedy told Gonzales, "We have a sprawling bureaucracy that has all kinds of redundancies and a lot of administrative costs."

He explained that HHS under the Biden administration saw a 38% budget increase and a 17% increase in staff despite declining public health.

'Who would have thought four years ago that we could actually have done an audit of the United States government through people who are volunteering to come in and do it?'

Kennedy noted that he plans to consolidate the agency's more than 100 communications, 40 IT, and 40 human resources departments. He stated that with the extreme bloat, the agency had become "impossible" to govern, inspire, and unify its mission.

"These different agencies' divisions were living in silos. And sometimes they devolved into kind of fiefdoms where they were at war with each other," he continued. "I found out that medical information that is collected by one silo, they then sell it to the other groups in my agency, instead of sharing it and saying, 'How do we use this in a way to improve patient care? How do we use it in a way to make people healthy?'"

"We're cutting down 28 divisions into 15," he added.

Kennedy told Gonzales that under the Trump administration, HHS would focus on cleaning up the nation's food supply, including improving baby formula, ending the use of Generally Recognized as Safe standards, and removing dyes, chemicals, and seed oils contributing to the chronic disease epidemic.

He also stated that HHS is currently preparing new nutrition guidelines, which he estimated would include a three-page document advocating for whole foods.

McMahon revealed to Gonzales that she also noticed redundancies in the ED, noting that each department within the agency had its own human resources division.

She applauded Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency for conducting an outside audit "through very rapid use of technology" that exposed "a lot of the bloat."

She pushed back on Democrats' claims that eliminating the ED would hinder children's education.

"The Department of Education going away simply means — and this is what the president really wanted to focus on — we're just getting rid of the bureaucracy that is standing in between the kind of funding that is necessary to flow to the states while letting the states determine how they are going to educate their own children to have their own policies," McMahon told Gonzales.

She added that the ED had reduced its overhead by roughly half, saving U.S. taxpayers $500 million annually, noting that the majority of the cuts were "mostly redundancies."

"We'll operate more efficiently," McMahon declared. "Who would have thought four years ago that we could actually have done an audit of the United States government through people who are volunteering to come in and do it?"

She stated that Musk has sacrificed significantly to help trim the bureaucracy within the federal government and save taxpayers money.

"We owe him a debt of gratitude," McMahon said.

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Millions of noncitizens received SSNs — and some even voted: Musk



During a Sunday evening town hall in Wisconsin, Elon Musk revealed that more than 4.8 million noncitizens have been given Social Security numbers since fiscal year 2021.

Musk explained that Antonio Gracias, the founder and CEO of Valor Equity Partners, has been assisting the federal government with reducing waste and fraud within the Social Security Administration. He noted that the Department of Government Efficiency previously found 20 million deceased individuals marked alive in the agency’s database.

'It was a massive large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent, deep-blue one-party state from which there would be no escape.'

Gracias joined Musk on stage to share a shocking chart showing a breakdown of the number of noncitizens who received SSNs under the Biden administration: 270,425 in fiscal year 2021; 590,193 in 2022; 964,163 in 2023; 2,095,247 in 2024; and 900,649 in 2025 so far.

“When we saw these numbers, we were like, ‘What is this?’” Gracias stated. “This literally blew us away.”

Musk called the chart “mind-blowing.”

“We went there to find fraud, and we found this by accident,” Gracias remarked. “This is not political. This is about America and the future of America.”

He explained how the Biden administration made it possible for millions of noncitizens to obtain SSNs.

“When you come in the country, if you’re illegal, there’s a couple ways to come in. You can come in through a port of entry, and you can tell them [Border Patrol agents] that you’re afraid, and they’ll give you an asylum case,” Gracias continued. “Another way to do it is to just go to the border. … You walk up to a Border Patrol officer, and you tell them you want to come in. They have a couple of choices: They could charge you with a misdemeanor or felony under 1325, or they can make it an administrative offense, like a parking ticket basically.”

Gracias stated that under Biden, officers at the border were instructed to issue administrative offenses, which allowed foreign nationals to pour into the country and stay while they await years-out court dates to review their immigration status. During that waiting period, some could apply for work authorization, which would prompt the SSA to send SSNs through the mail.

“No interview. No ID,” he said.

Musk added, “People sometimes think that under the Biden administration, he [former President Joe Biden] was simply asleep at the switch. They weren’t asleep as the switch. It was a massive large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent, deep-blue one-party state from which there would be no escape.”

Gracias supported Musk’s claims.

“If I hadn’t seen this myself, I’m not sure I would have believed it,” he said. “Elon is right. This is true. The defaults in the system, from Social Security to all of the benefit programs, have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people — and minimum collection.”

Gracias stated that 1.3 million of the noncitizens who had received SSNs were also receiving Medicaid.

“What was really, really disturbing us was why,” he continued. “And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records, and we found people here registered to vote.”

“And who did vote,” Musk remarked.

Gracias stated that those individuals have been referred for prosecution.

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