Donald Trump delivers a short speech praising Elon Musk for leading a major government reform effort. He credits Musk and his team with installing an engineering mindset across federal departments, detecting fraud and waste, and beginning long-term modernization of outdated computer systems (mentions a Department of Government Efficiency and IRS system overhauls).
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Today it's about a man named Elon, and he's one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced. He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation, and we appreciate it. And I just want to say that Elon has worked tirelessly, helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations. And, you know, the kinds of things that he's. He's found and his people have found. He's brought a group of very smart people in, and they found things that are pretty unbelievable. I have to say that the numbers that we're talking about are substantial, but they're going to be very much more substantial with time, because many of the things that we're working on right now, we're going to have to remember Elon as we find them. But the numbers could double and triple because many, many things. We don't want to go out with them until we're sure, but we've found things that are unbelievably stupid and unbelievably bad. With the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon delivered a colossal change in the old ways of doing business. In Washington, Doge has installed geniuses with an engineering mindset and unbelievably talented people in computers. I actually asked Elon one time, what's their primary thing? And they have a lot of primary things, all having to do with being smart. But he said the thing that they're really the best at is working with computers so that they can't be outsmarted by somebody that's not so honest. That happens to also be good with computers, but not as good as these people. But the mindset in the senior ranks of every federal department, and it's really changed. And with Elon's guidance, they're helping to detect fraud, waste, and modernize broken and outdated systems. So, as you know, we're talking about various systems and changing systems, and, you know, sadly, it takes a long time to do that. You'll change, say, a system at IRS and computerize it properly, where the job can be done in 1/10 of time. But it takes. It takes sometimes years to rebuild those systems. But we've started in.
