Elizabeth Warren pens Fox News op-ed revealing she agrees with Trump and Musk on one thing
Elizabeth Warren pens Fox News op-ed revealing she agrees with Trump and Musk on one thing
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The Democratic senator said she is ‘ready to work with Musk’ but he might not like her suggestions. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has written an op-ed for Fox News about one “important” thing she agrees with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on.
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Warren shared that she agrees with the cost-cutting aims of the Department of Government Efficiency — but not the government programs Musk and Republicans are eyeing as potential targets. The Massachusetts senator said she is “ready to work with Musk” to make the government “more efficient” while saving the taxpayer money.
But Musk is unlikely to listen to Warren’s blueprint for cost-saving measures because her plan targets “billionaires and billionaire corporations who are feasting off the American taxpayer.”. House Republicans have previously suggested DOGE focus on Social Security and Medicare to cut costs. “Scrapping essential services is not efficiency; it is cold-hearted cruelty,” Warren said.
Warren claims her 30 specific proposals for Musk to consider could save the government $2 trillion. The senator also claims that her recommendations on cutting defense spending alone would save nearly $12 billion in the next 12 years, citing the government being overcharged on everything from military contracts to soap dispensers and pins.
One of Warren’s suggestions Musk is likely to ignore is to make millionaires and billionaires “pay their fair share.”. “It is not clear that you and other DOGE leaders are able to identify and mitigate your conflicts of interest and adhere to common-sense ethics standards,” Warren wrote.
