House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is heaping praise on President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its head, Elon Musk.
Johnson is crediting Musk and DOGE for exposing decades of hidden government spending that funneled taxpayer dollars to liberal allies and expanded federal bureaucracy.
Speaking on Fox News’s “Life, Liberty & Levin” on Saturday night, Johnson told host Mark Levin that for years, congressional oversight efforts were obstructed by bureaucrats refusing to turn over critical data.
“The challenge we’ve had here in recent decades is that members of Congress, these representatives, have not been able to do that job,” Johnson told Levin.
“The oversight job has been hindered because the deep state in the bureaucracy has not turned over the data.”
Johnson explained that lawmakers had been in the dark about certain spending patterns because information was deliberately concealed.
However, with Trump’s push to “drain the swamp” and Musk’s leadership at DOGE, those financial records are now coming to light.
Among the revelations are questionable expenditures such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s $458,919 “subscription” bill from leftist “news” outlet Politico, along with millions of taxpayer dollars funneled to liberal-leaning organizations.
Johnson praised Musk’s ability to uncover these spending practices.
“Elon has cracked the code,” Johnson said.
“He is on the inside of the belly of the beast, Mark, and he is unveiling and revealing all these things that we knew intuitively were happening but we didn’t have the evidence.”
Calling it a “game changer” and “truly revolutionary,” Johnson emphasized that Musk’s work is providing lawmakers with the necessary proof to dismantle excessive bureaucracy.
Johnson revealed that he met with Musk on Monday to encourage his efforts and to discuss how the information Musk’s team is uncovering can aid congressional budget reform efforts.
He recounted telling Musk, “You think of this as a scientist and a data analyst.
“I think of it as a constitutional law attorney and historian.”
Johnson explained that the goal is to return the federal government to its original design, one that prioritizes limited government and strict oversight by elected representatives.
“What we are going to be able to do through this effort is restore the original intent of the framers of the Constitution,” he said.
According to Johnson, the effort to cut back government overreach has alarmed Democrats and big-government proponents.
He stated, “We’re going to restore, ultimately, through this process, the federal government to the original intent of the Founders.
“And that’s what has the big government, socialist liberals, and Democrat Party apoplectic because they’re afraid of what the final result of this is going to be.”
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Following his Fox appearance, Johnson added in a post on X:
“What @ElonMusk is doing is truly revolutionary.
“As the DOGE algorithms find widespread fraud, waste, and abuse in the executive branch agencies that have been hidden from Congress for decades—it will allow us to restore the original intent of our Constitution: a leaner, more efficient, and more accountable federal government that is kept in check by the legislative branch.”
As the DOGE team continues to pull back the curtain on wasteful government spending and fraud, Republican lawmakers are preparing to use the data to push for budget cuts and structural reforms.
Whether these efforts will translate into lasting changes remains to be seen.
However, the revelations are already fueling new scrutiny over how taxpayer dollars have been spent.
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