U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he wanted to increase overall U.S. defense spending and played down concerns over a pending audit by Elon Musk aimed at finding billions of dollars in
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he wanted to increase overall U.S. defense spending and played down concerns over a pending audit by Elon Musk aimed at finding billions of dollars in waste at the Pentagon.
Speaking in Germany during his first trip overseas, Hegseth said he had already been in touch with Musk and expressed confidence in the effort to find billions in cost-cutting and to make the Pentagon more efficient.
"There's plenty of places (at the Pentagon) where we want the keen eye of DOGE, but we'll do it in coordination," Hegseth said, referring to Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. "We're not going to do things that are to the detriment of American operational or tactical capabilities."
Still, Hegseth said he was already "intimately" involved with key committees in Congress about bolstering the U.S. military. Musk's companies, like SpaceX, also hold major contracts with the Pentagon, which has raised significant conflict of interest concerns.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said the Pentagon will be an early target of Musk's DOGE, which will review U.S. defense spending once it finishes slashing spending at the Department of Education. Trump has said he expects Musk to find hundreds of billions of
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