It's a Numbers Game: The Numbers Behind DOGE with Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene

July fourth, twenty twenty six. Now, let's examine what DOGE was created for and what is done. DOGE was created by an executive order on January twentieth, twenty twenty five, by President Trump. The executive order states that doge's purpose is to quote implement the President's DOJ agenda by modernizing federal technology and software to maximize government efficiency and productivity.

It later goes on to say that DOGE will improve the IT system, work with agency heads to promote interruptibility between agency networks and systems, ensure data integrity, and facilitate responsible data collection and synchronization. Nowhere in the executive order does DOGE talk about being used as a force to balance the budget or cancel contracts or like o of federal workers. It's very clearly a conversation about modernizing and protecting data to run more efficiency, which is a noble goal,

like the government should try to do that. Yet most of the conversations surrounding Doge it's about saving money and stopping inefficient programs. So let's get into the data. Let's get into the numbers. The US government is currently thirty six point four trillion dollars in debt, which is a number, like most people can't think up with thirty six trillion dollars in debt. It runs a two trillion dollar deficit every single year. It's not because we don't collect money.

Any taxpayer will tell you we collect money. The federal government's revenue from taxes is over five trillion dollars a year, but we spend seven trillion now. According to the Doge clock, which is a feature from the US deck clock website, doges estimated savings for the government so far from what they found is about eighty one billion dollars in waste

fraud abuse. Some analysts say it's like closer to thirty eight billion, but it's between you know, thirty thirty eight and eighty one billion, whichever number it is, it's a lot of money. Pretending like it's not, which some Democrats are doing, is very stupid, because American taxayers feel like their money is being wasted on DEI consultants and duplicate programs, or just showed up being stolen and given to corrupt oligarchs overseas. But that's your data. That's the hard number.

Thirty six trillion in depth, five trillion taken in through taxes, seven trillion spent, and two trillion in deficits, with between thirty eight and eighty one billion dollars in savings from DOGE. Defenders of these programs such as like USAID, which has been very heavily unscrutinized by the Doge Committee, I've said that these programs help promote foreign policy and soft power. This is Washington d C Speak for you're too stupid

to complain abo how your tax dollars work. So kudos to anyone looking for bad spending and wasteful and duplicate programs. This isn't really really important work. However, it's not enough to balance our budget. It's not even close it's currently less than half of one percent of the federal deficit. This is far below the two trillion dollar number that Elon Musk originally said he hoped Doge could find and

cut from the government. As a millennial who vaguely remembers the last time he balanced the budget in two thousand and one, this is frustrating. Bill Clinton actually said in two thousand he expected to pay down the entire US debt by twenty twelve because we're running surpluses in the late nineties and early two thousands, and then of course we had the Warren terror warre in Iraq, the Bush tax cuts, Obamacare, cash for clunkers, so on, and so forth.

Administration after administration, and we're in the situation we're in now. Doge hit a controversy even before it began, first with the exiting of co chairman of ac Raamaswami. He left before the administration started. This is after he said a series of tweets saying that Americans were lazy and unsuccessful because they let their kids idolize athletes and have sleepovers. Sources close to me have told me that Doge was looking for him to get out way before, way before

this actually came out, these tweets came out. He wasn't what you considered an extremely active participant. You know when you're like a little you're like a kid and your little brother wants to play a video game that you're playing, so but he's terrible, so you give him like a remote that's not plugged in to the game and tell him that he's like playing. That was allegedly the relationship

between Elonofek. That's what my sources have told me. Since starting though in January, Doge's staff has gained access to many federal departments, taking data, including sensitive data, offering buyouts to federal workers so they could retire early. They've closed excess office space or looking to close excess office space, and canceling contracts that they thought were wasteful. There's a

lot of noise around Doge. The Democrats don't have a singular message because and that's a real problem for the Democratic Party if you've paid attention the last few message for the last few years. But they're very angry about the accessing data. That the staffers were very young, The Dough staffers are very young. Some of the Dog staffers have written very spicy takes on social media that they've raised concerns about that accessing this federal data and canceling

these contracts is illegal. I want to focus specifically on the data aspect because a lot of the other stuff is just political noise. It's not actually relevant that one of the people who's nineteen wrote something spicy on Twitter seven months ago, like that doesn't actually matter, but the

accessing federal data could matter. Musk and the Trump administration said that they had quote read only access to all the federal data, but reporters had wired so that at least one dough staffer had the ability to change the code of the Treasury Department's payment system. Democrats have said that the staffers were attempting to cut off payments to programs that were against President Trump's agenda without an Act

of Congress. Federal judge in New York has blocked Doge's access to the sense of data and the Treasury Department, while a different federal judge in Washington has declined to block doge's access to data in the Labor Department. That Ladder judge did express those concerns that seffrs had not

been properly trained about handling sensitive data. The Washington Post reported quote Dojes associates have been feeding vast tropes of government records and databases into artificial intelligence tools, looking for unwanted federal programs and trying to determine which human work can be replaced with AI, machine learning tools, or even robots. Everything that can be machine automated will be machine automated.

So one person speaking to the Post, that raises a question in my head, this is what I'm concerned about. Whose AI company are they replacing the workers? Because the government doesn't own an AI system. That doesn't exist, there's no federal AI system. It contracts out to other AI companies, and tech companies have investing billions and billions of dollars into smarter, faster, and possibly one day self learning AI. That's like the goal of a lot of tech billionaires

is to have self learning AI. The US has no comprehensive federal laws governing AI. There are none. While there are some guidelines in the federal agencies, there's no giant oversight as to what AI should be doing. It could be doing that could be a good thing for if you're an AI investor, a bad thing if you're concerned with certain issues around AI and how would either a replacing workers or how it could possibly be interfering in

our lives. That being said, if it's going to replace our federal workforce with artificial intelligence, if this is the goal of Doge, whose AI company are we using? Where are we bidding this for? Because it's not coming from within the company, within the government. We're not building our own is it Elon Musks He recently just put a ninety seven point four billion dollar bid to buy the

assets of a nonprofit that controls open Ai. According to The New York Times, he's been very interested in building an AI company. This is something worth asking as we plunge headfirst into our new world. I think it could be a real problem when it comes to Doge is that Democrats and Republicans are really talking past each other at this moment. Republicans are rightfully concerned about spending because we are spending way too much, way too much deficit,

way too much debt. They're completely and totally right and looking past bloated federal agencies to take out the waste as a noble cause. And while some Democrats are trying to score political points against Donald Trump, who's enjoying the most faveriable prole ratings of his entire career. Many are right to have concerns with this data. But while they're looking at it from the question of Doge holding a Social Security number and income record, no one really, I mean,

that's not the real concern. What I'm worried about is the future of the government brought to us by our tech overlords. Whose AI company is going to be running our federal agencies, because it's not one that we've built, it's not one that comes from within the government, is

one that is contracted from out the government. And if the people having this access to this quote unquote possibly read only files or if they're changing coding, if they're the ones getting access for their companies, that is extremely, extremely problematic. Hey, we'll be right back after this. I am beyond excited to have my guests this week, someone who can talk a lot about Doge. My guest, Congressman Marjorie Taylor Green from the Great State of Georgia's represents

the fourteenth district since twenty twenty one. Representative Green is the chairwoman of the Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee. Congressman thank you for being here, having to be on So my first first question is very straightforward, how does your caucus work with DOGE.

from the legislative branch of the government. And I think this is an incredibly important thing to do because if DOGE is only functioning in the executive branch, that means and we're going to have every single Obama and Biden appointed judge coming out and blocking the important work that

they're trying to do. We're going to have, you know, through Democrats filing all kinds of lawsuits trying to stop Elon Musk and Doge, and in any future Democrat administration can virtually go through and undo everything that's been done with their executive orders.

And at the same time that that part of the year is approaching that deadline to pay taxes to the federal government, here's people learning about ridiculous expenditures of their hard earned tax dollars, and we're thirty six trillion dollars in debt. The American people should not only be outraged, they should be furious. Now it's too much to even comprehend.

adding more tax cuts on top of that. No tax on tips, no tax on social Security, no tax on overtime. And President Trump is supporting salt. So these are more tax cuts that are going to take place on top of spending cuts, and we just have to make sure that we've got the numbers right to be able to deliver on those promises right now.

hundred billion dollars. So for the Democrats to decide that they're they're going to make the bad guy, and they're going to go out there and protests in front of the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce, and they're going out there and saying, we're going to to defend the unelected bureaucrats, We're defending the government. We want to keep spending this money. Elon Musk is bad. He

is evil. I think that is music to my ears because I really want to win the midterms Ryan, and I think the Democrats are definitely going down the wrong path for making a big fuss over cutting spending.

has really reached, at least in the media, a very very very big concern in some people. Some people have concerned.

foreign wars. They have funded many organizations that George Soros is literally aligned with and running, and we know that money makes its way back into Democrat campaign offers. I don't think that there's I don't have any concerns about Elon Musk. You know they're talking about, Oh, Elon Musk has people social security numbers. Well, the richest man in the world is really not going to go out and set up some account with your grandma's Social Security number. He just doesn't need to do that.

we're thirty six trillion dollars in debt. What can we afford and what can we not afford? Yeah, we can't afford these these federal handouts for these so called.

workers by printing homes literally building homes. So I think AI is definitely a solution that we'll be looking at, and it'll just depend on you know, I don't nail down always on a broad issue, just depends on how to solve the problem.

give you hypothetical. I just I think that it's a good question because the federal government doesn't own an AI company, so everything will be contracted out, and I just you know, when it comes to all of our federal information, all of our federal data, I think that having some oversight over which is what you're on, oversight over these private companies and AI basically running parts of our federal government

is just worthy of doing. What is your goal, like, what is your if you could have, if the whole world had to listen, Margine Taylor Green or the whole subcommittee of the whole Congress, what it would be your goal that DOAGE would do by the time it ends in July fourth, twenty twenty six.

various departments. For example, my hearing on Wednesday on Medicaid and Medicare, we investigated improper payments and so we looked in deeply at how hundreds of billions of dollars can be saved literally by stopping checks from going to dead people, going to foreign countries, criminal rings that have used Americans ID and used their stolen their data to create accounts, and they're literally stealing our money and it's being sent overseas.

This can all be stopped by literally algorithms in our payment processing departments. And you know, those are the things we got to do. It's modernization. These are the things that you do in your private business that makes your business run more efficient, which increases your revenue and increases

your profit. And so my goal with doged would be to transform the federal government to be run like a very successful business and serve its customer, which is the American people, versus a failing business that's on the verge of bankruptcy, which is what we are right now.

Yet there is over fifty billion dollars in medicaid for all that they just discovered in the Wall Street Journal. There's all these you know NGOs, as we've talked about, is there a way to reduce the size and spending a government without middle America or or middle income people or lower income people and seniors really being so heavily impact that they feel the pain. Because we've talked about having Social Security, no tax social Security, no tax on tips,

tax cuts that help the middle class. You know, what would you say to the two progressives who say any cut and spending is going to eventually hurt working class people.

paying taxes on these Social Security checks anyways. This is money that's already been tax This is money that they should be paid right back, and they shouldn't have to pay Uncle Sam again, who clearly isn't good with handling their hard earned money. We're going to be helping those single moms and people that are really struggling by cutting

the deficit. Growing the economy, which is another very important piece to this, growing the economy, passing President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and making sure that we passed his new tax priorities as well well.

Thank you so much for being here. I really really appreciate your time. Where can people go to read what you're doing, what you're working on on Doge?