Elon Musk and VR mwami they've been meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill discussing how they plan to cut federal spending to the tune of $2 trillion that's the goal as co-directors of President elect Donald Trump's Department of government efficiency or Doge not an official government department but certainly an assignment from the president-elect among those talking with these two billionaires today was the Speaker of the House Republican Mike Johnson you're going to see a lot of change around here and in Washington and the way things are run uh we need to make government more efficient and
that is what this whole objective is that's what the Doge um effort will be about and meanwhile Donald Trump's picked to become the defense secretary Pete heg said he was also back on Capitol Hill today meeting with Senators hoping to save his embattled nomination as he seeks to fend off accusations from his past so let's bring in ABC News J O'Brien live on Capitol Hill along with AB news senior reporter Katherine falers in West Palm Beach Florida near Mara Lago uh Jay first to you here in Washington what else did we learn from musk and
ramas Swami's meeting there on the hill today well we learned Terry that it was a relatively high level meeting in that they didn't get into tons of the details they kind of stayed at a thousand yards above it and talking about broad sweeping conversations of government cuts and reducing what they call government redundancies and maximizing government efficiency in this new initiative that president-elect Trump has tapped musk and ramen Swami to lead called the quote unquote Department of government efficiency or Doge we do know that ramaswami and musk doubled down on their pledge to cut $2
trillion out of the federal government in two years that's a very tall order and it remains to these teen to exactly how they want to pull that off and one of the questions we had for this meeting were do they get into the specifics do they tell these Republican members of the House and Senate exactly what their plan is and they didn't seem to get into that instead they took this opportunity to solicit advice from members of Congress in this kind of open Forum in this Open Mic kind of session where members went to the
mic and they proposed what government Cuts they want to see happen although I heard from members in the room who say it was kind of a free-for-all and there was no real consensus on what cuts exactly should be made now speaker Mike Johnson says stay watch this space over the next you know few days weeks if not months on exactly what the plan is going to look like but certainly at this hour Terry there was no clear plan on how to get to these significant government Cuts significant overhauls to the federal government enacted through this
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