Elon Musk listens during a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House on Monday, March 24, in Washington. (AP/Pool)
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Trump that "There is a federal consulting group which was a group inside of Interior, but it was managing contracts for many different agencies that flowed through here" and "one of those contracts was to do surveys of individuals, $830 million for surveys."
"And so part of the question was ‘hey could we actually see the surveys?’ and then the surveys came back and it was, the survey was like 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper with ten questions that anyone’s child in junior high could have put together, or AI could have done for free," Burgum said during the Cabinet meeting. "$830 million, so that is one that we stopped and that contract was going out after you were inaugurated, sir."
"It’s fraud," Trump responded. "But we've had many fraudulent contracts that were caught by the work that Elon and his people are doing and working with our people. It's been brought to light. The fraud, not just waste and abuse. The fraud has been incredible."
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Members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet detailed contracts they have canceled since he took office. (AP)
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"The partnership with DOGE and Elon Musk has been incredible at EPA. Their team is very talented, we wouldn’t have been able to do it without them and of course this mandate from President Trump to make sure that we identify every last penny, whether we are saving $50,000, five million dollars or $22 billion dollars we will not rest until every last penny is saved. Thank you, Mr. President for the opportunity to do this for the American public," Zeldin added.
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