Trump: Musk will help uncover hundreds of billions of dollars in fraudulent spending!

US President Donald Trump has expressed his full confidence in Elon Musk, who has been tasked with cutting federal spending, saying his billionaire ally will help uncover hundreds of billions of dollars that he believes were spent fraudulently.

“We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse, and you know that’s what the people elected me for,” Trump told Fox News, according to an excerpt from an interview set to air Sunday.

After becoming a close adviser to Donald Trump, the world’s richest man and the head of Tesla, X and SpaceX, has taken over the leadership of an efficiency committee to review federal spending and cut it dramatically.

During his three weeks in office, the US president signed a series of executive orders aimed at cutting federal spending.

But while the administration has highlighted several government projects that Trump believes should be ended or scaled back, no evidence of widespread fraud has been presented.

Musk took unprecedented steps to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID), laying off thousands of employees, and criticism mounted after his team was given access to the personal and financial data of millions of Americans through the Treasury Department.

A federal judge issued an order blocking the administration’s plan to put 2,200 USAID employees on paid leave.

The next day, another judge issued an emergency order barring Musk’s committee from accessing Treasury Department payment systems that contain sensitive Americans’ data.

Trump said in his Fox News interview that he would order Musk within a day or so to audit the Education Department budget, which Republicans have repeatedly criticized.

“I’ll go to the military next,” he added, reiterating his pledge to review spending at the Pentagon, which has a 2025 budget of about $850 billion.

In this regard, White House National Security Advisor Mike Walz told NBC, “We need business leaders to fundamentally reform the Pentagon’s procurement processes,” noting that the current mechanisms are very expensive and time-consuming.

Elon Musk’s role has come under fire because his companies have billions of dollars in contracts with the US government — more than $20 billion, according to Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan.

Asked if he had confidence in Musk’s ability to fairly stop the financial waste, Trump appeared to assert that the billionaire businessman and his companies were not financially benefiting from the committee he leads.

“He doesn’t gain anything,” he said.

Democrats have criticized Trump’s efforts, including Senator Chris Murphy, who warned Sunday of an assault on the Constitution and said the US president’s approach heralds a billionaire takeover of government.

“The president wants to be able to control how and where the money is spent so he can reward his political friends and punish his political enemies,” Murphy added on ABC News This Week.

But House Speaker Mike Johnson, the top Republican in Congress, has repeatedly downplayed concerns that Trump would overstep his authority or rush to reform the federal government, including agencies like USAID.

Johnson, who is set to watch the Super Bowl with Trump in a suite at the New Orleans stadium, described Musk as an outside auditor whose team is exposing incredible abuses of public finances.