House Speaker Mike Johnson praised Elon Musk's DOGE campaign on Monday during an event hosted by "Americans For Prosperity." "For decades, as we all know, we haven't been able to do that job well. Even though we've requested data and insight,
Speaker Mike Johnson claimed Elon Musk instantly has broken the codes to government agency data with his algorithms which will comb through the data, deciding who lives and dies in the federal government. This is beyond disgusting and despicable.
President Donald Trump had said earlier this week his administration was weighing sending 20% of savings by DOGE to taxpayers.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said stimulus checks tied to DOGE actions would make the Republican party look good, but added he preferred to pay off national debt.
Trump and Musk keep talking up the idea of sending checks to Americans. But GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, keep batting it down.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., signaled he was not a fan of a proposal to send Americans stimulus checks with the money saved by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and that he believed the funding was better directed toward the national debt.