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Well, let me say, perhaps a few words, that this is not the end of Doge, but really the beginning. My time as a special government employee necessarily had to end. It was a limited time thing. It's 134 days, I believe, which ends in a few days. So that comes with a time limit. But the Doge team will only grow stronger over time. The Doge influence will only grow stronger. It's-- I liken it to sort of Buddhism. It's like a way of life. So it is permeating throughout the government. And I'm confident that over time we'll see a trillion dollars of savings and a reduction in-- a trillion dollars of waste of poor reduction. The calculations of the Doge team thus far, in terms of an FY25 to FY26, delta are over $160 billion. And that's climbing. We expect that number will probably go over $200 billion soon. So I think the Doge team is doing an incredible job. They're going to continue doing an incredible job. And I'll be-- and I'll continue to be visiting here and be a friend and advisor to the president. And I look forward to times being back in this amazing room. By the way, isn't this incredible? This incredible-- I mean, it's stunning, I think, the way that the Oval Office-- the president has just completely redone the Oval Office. It's beautiful. I love the gold on the ceiling. It's pretty nice. Yeah. That's been there a long time. That was plaster. Nobody ever really saw it. They didn't know the eagle was up there. And we highlighted it's a-- essentially, it's a landmark, a great landmark. And that's 24 karat gold. And everybody loved it. And now they all see it when they come in. So it's been good. The Oval Office finally has the majesty that it deserves thanks to the president. So I look forward to continuing to be a friend and advisor to the president, continuing to support the Doge team. And we are relentlessly pursuing $8 trillion in ways to afford reductions, which will benefit the American taxpayer. So that's it, really. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. All right. Great job. [APPLAUSE]

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-We're cutting down government. We're cutting down the size of government. We have to. We're bloated. We're sloppy. We have a lot of people that aren't doing their job. We have a lot of people that don't exist.

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Other agencies of the federal government find themselves under intense scrutiny as Trump's waist-cutting ways continue. President Trump has decided that our government needs a little slimming down. Forget keto. This is the MAGA diet plan for a bloated bureaucracy that is gorged on taxpayer dollars long enough. By ordering an 8% cut to the Pentagon's budget and laying off 6,700 IRS employees, Trump is showing that he means business. So what do illegal immigrants and IVF treatments have in common? Absolutely nothing. But that didn't stop Trump from addressing both issues in his latest round of executive orders. On one hand, cutting benefits for illegals. On the other, expanding access to IVF. It is a classic Trump move, tough on criminals, yet softer than a rom-com subplot when it comes to families trying to have kids. He's basically saying if you want to grow the American family, just do it the legal way. And who could be against that? Foreign aid is feeling the squeeze too. Trump has frozen wasteful foreign aid and put USAID operations on ice faster than a New York sidewalk in February. Critics are hand-wringing and bedwetting. Reasonable people say this is Trump finally giving America a break from being the world's piggy bank. While critics are busy hyperventilating, President Trump continues to execute his playbook with style, flair, and intense focus on righting the wrongs. From cutting bloated budgets to renaming the Gulf of America, every move is calculated. Every decision bold, love him or hate him, you can't ignore that this is President Trump charging on. And isn't that the ultimate Trump card?

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And here are just a few examples of where your money was going before I came along. These are just some of the, just taken at random, oh, there are much worse examples than this. I was just looking at them before the speech and I can tell you they were much worse. And there are some that are horrible, but I don't want to really say them because they're very, very embarrassing to people, very, very embarrassing. And they're really something, but you'll be seeing it and you will be reading about it. But just some taking at random, $2 million for sex change operations in Guatemala, $20 million for Sesame Street performances in Iraq, $20 million, that's a lot of money. I know what it costs to do those things, you get a cast over for $50,000, give them a couple of bucks tip, that's it, not $20 million, $20 million, that's gone with the wind on steroids. $101 million for 29 diversity, equity, and inclusion contracts at the Department of Education, wow. And we've also canceled, we've canceled all of these, saved all of this money. And again, this is just a small sample, this could go on, I could read them all day. $520 million for a consultant, I want to know who is that consultant, to do ESG, that's environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa. $25 million to promote biodiversity, conservation, and illicit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in Colombia. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants, nobody knows what that even means, none of this stuff, nobody, everyone's trying to figure out, what the hell does it all mean? $42 million for social and behavior changes in Uganda, $40 million is a lot of newspaper ads in Uganda. $70 million for research of evidence-based solutions for development challenges, $10 million for Mozambique medical male circumcision. What is that, what does that mean? $2.3 million for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia. $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia. $486 million to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening, including $22 million for inclusion, inclusive, participatory political process in Moldova. And $21 million for voter turnout in India, what do we need to spend $21 million for voter turnout in India? Wow, $21 million, I guess they were trying to get somebody else elected, wow, we ought to tell the Indian government, because when we hear that Russia spent about $2 in our country, it was a big deal, right? They took some internet ads for $2,000, this is a total breakthrough, $21 million for India elections, $29 million to strengthen the political landscape in Bangladesh. $20 million for fiscal federalism and $19 million in addition to the $21 million for biodiversity conversion in Nepal. $1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia, we need voter confidence, too, when you read this list. $14 million for social cohesion in Mali, $2.5 million for inclusive democracies in South Africa. $47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia, Asia's doing very well, we don't need to give them money. And in another program, $50 million plus another $50 million for condoms for Hamas, you know about that? $100 million for condoms, condoms, does everybody know what a condom is? For Hamas, $100 million. And these are just, I could read this list all day long, I just don't want to bore you. But these are just some, and not nearly as bad as others, and some are just, I just don't want to say them because they're too incendiary.

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I'm unapologetically with Trump and Musk, and now among the blue hairs and the opinion writers in Washington, we're losing. We're winning with the American people. And I think Bill and Danny, the big picture should not go unnoticed. Some people, mostly my Democratic colleagues, have chosen to support the bureaucracy and the spending porn over the American taxpayer. These are the same folks who chose to support illegal immigration over the rule of law, who chose to support teachers unions over schools and kids, who chose to support criminals over crime victims, who chose to support transgender athletes over women's sports, frankly, who chose to support Hamas over Israel. Now, they think they're winning, and they may be in the bubble of Washington, but not among the taxpayers when they say, tell me, well, we think we're winning. I tell them, sure, and be on the lookout for flying pigs. I think the justice stick is coming, and I think the American people support everything we're doing.

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