Speaker Johnson On Elon Musk & Vivek DOGE bicameral & bipartisan, 1% Fed employees in Office

Speaker Johnson speaks to media before Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy meet with lawmakers on government efficiency: “We need to make government more efficient.”

Speaker Mike Johnson gave slightly more information at a scheduled presser ahead of the presentation by Musk and Ramaswamy, but even he said that there would be little in terms of real substance released to the press today. “They’re innovators and they’re forward thinkers, and so that’s what we need right now,” Johnson said of Musk and Ramaswamy. “We need to make government more efficient. And that is what this whole objective is. It’s what the DOGE effort will be about. You’re going to see a bicameral cooperation, and it will be, by the way, bipartisan.”

He pointed to a number of Democrats he said had already come forward to join the effort. But he dodged a question regarding whether it was truly feasible to make such deep cuts to the federal budget without touching Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, the bulk of America’s medical and financial safety net for low-income and older citizens.

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Speaker Johnson On Elon Musk & Vivek DOGE bicameral & bipartisan, 1% Fed employees in Office

Key Points

Speaker Johnson speaks to media before Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy meet with lawmakers on government efficiency: “We need to make government more efficient

Speaker Mike Johnson gave slightly more information at a scheduled presser ahead of the presentation by Musk and Ramaswamy, but even he said that there would be little in terms of real substance released to the press today

• “They’re innovators and they’re forward thinkers, and so that’s what we need right now,” Johnson said of Musk and Ramaswamy
• “We need to make government more efficient

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• We believe it’s an historic moment for the country, and these two gentlemen are going to help navigate through this exciting new day
• Elon and Vivek don’t need much of an introduction here in Congress for certain, and most of the American people know what they’re capable of and what they’ve achieved
• Both of these gentlemen have run very successful organizations, they’re innovators, and they’re forward thinkers
• And so what you’re going to have today is, first is a meeting that we’ll have here with decision makers, key figures in the Republican House and Senate who are chairs of committees of jurisdiction who deal with the money and financing of government and the structure of government
• We’ll have chairs of the new Doge caucuses that have been set up in the Senate and the House, and you’re going to see a bicameral cooperation, and it will be, by the way, bipartisan over the last 24 or 48 hours
• You’ve seen a number of our Democrat colleagues, both in the Senate and the House, who have said, you know what
• And I think we’re going to do great things for the country
• You said you’ll find two trillion dollars in cuts without cutting programs like Medicaid, Social Security
• Do you have confidence that you can find cuts to that level
• Or will this meeting be an opportunity to level set to a more realistic number

Full transcript: 721 words transcribed via Whisper AI.