President Donald Trump celebrated his whirlwind first 4 weeks again within the Oval Place of work in a accent prior to the Conservative Political Motion Convention Saturday afternoon, citing what he referred to as “flagrant scams” exposed by way of Elon Musk and the Branch of Executive Potency.
“I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency — you probably haven’t heard of it — which is now waging war on government waste, fraud and abuse. And Elon is doing a great job,” Trump stated on the Gaylord Nationwide Hotel & Conference Heart Saturday in Oxon Hill, Maryland, simply out of doors the population’s capital. “He’s doing a great job.”
Musk is eminent DOGE as investigators scrutinize numerous federal companies in an attempt to curb govt overspending and stamp out fraud. DOGE’s paintings has change into a lightening rod for grievance amongst Democratic lawmakers and govt workers, who’ve filed plenty of court cases making an attempt to finish the investigations and audits.
“Here are some of the flagrant scams that, as an example, they’ve spent money on, and we’ve been able to recapture a large dose of it at least. Five hundred and 20 million dollars for a consultant … [on] environmental, social governance and investments in Africa,” he stated.
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President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Motion Convention annual assembly in Nationwide Harbor, Md., Feb. 22, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
“Twenty-five million dollars to promote biodiversity conservation and socially responsible behavior in Colombia. This is Colombia, South America, not Columbia University. Of course, that might be worse. … Forty million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
“40-two million for social and behaviour alternate in Uganda. Ten million for Mozambique scientific male circumcisions. Why are we moving to Mozambique to do circumcisions?” Trump asked, before continuing to rattle off a handful of other pricey initiatives funded by taxpayers uncovered by DOGE.
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Elon Musk speaks during an event in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump at the White House Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Images/Alex Brandon)
CPAC is an annual conference of conservative lawmakers, leaders and voters, which kicked off on Wednesday and wraps up Saturday after Trump’s speech.
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Earlier in the day, Trump sent a message on his Truth Social platform calling on Musk to “get extra competitive” with his DOGE work.
“Will do, Mr. President!” Musk responded just a few hours ahead of Trump’s CPAC speech.
Musk later added on X, “In keeping with President @realDonaldTrump’s directions, all federal workers will in a while obtain an e mail asking for to know what they were given achieved closing date. Failure to reply might be taken as a departure.”
“We’ve an excessively corrupt team of public on this nation, and we’re discovering them out,” Trump said during his speech. “We’re casting off the entire pointless, incompetent and corrupt bureaucrats from the federal team of workers.”
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Trump said he and Musk will head to Fort Knox in Kentucky to ensure the United States Bullion Depository still houses a reported $425 billion in government gold. The Trump administration and Republican allies have called for more transparency about the vault.
President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 22, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the vault in 1943, which was followed by Treasury Secretary William Simon opening the vault to journalists and lawmakers in 1974 and again during the first Trump administration when Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and lawmakers, including Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, inspected the vault.
“We also are moving to Citadel Knox. I’m moving to proceed with Elon. And would anyone love to fix us? As a result of we wish to see if the gold remains to be there. We wish to see,” Trump said.
Fort Knox in Kentucky (Getty Images)
“Wouldn’t that be unpleasant? We observable [it] up, and this Citadel Knox has were given not anything. It’s simply cast granite that’s 5 toes thick. The entrance door, you want six musclemen to observable it up. I don’t even suppose they’ve home windows. Wouldn’t that be unpleasant if we opened it up and there used to be deny gold there? So, we’re moving to observable the ones doorways, we’re going to have a look. And if there’s 27 heaps of gold, we’ll be more than pleased,” he added.
“I don’t know the way the hell we’ll measure it, however that’s OK.”
President Donald Trump attends the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 22, 2025. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)
Trump ended his first full month back in the White House this week, which has included a breakneck pace of executive orders and actions.
He took a victory lap for his whirlwind first month, touting in his speech the administration’s work to end the “weaponization” of the government under the former Biden administration, his plan to soon impose reciprocal tariffs on foreign trading partners and celebrating the deportation of illegal immigrants from communities across the nation.
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“We’re releasing communities like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, which have been preoccupied by way of unlawful alien criminals from in all places the sector,” Trump said.
“We’re rescuing the American citizens whose jobs had been stolen, whose wages had been robbed and whose approach of week has been completely destroyed. And, underneath the Trump management, our nation may not be was a dumping grassland.”
