Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are leading an initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to identify and expose wasteful government spending. Musk admitted to making mistakes and promised to correct them, while Trump vowed to reveal details of billions spent on programs. However, previous claims made by Musk and Trump about ineffective spending, including the $50 million spent on condoms in Gaza, have been largely unsubstantiated or inaccurate.
Elon Musk speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump reacts in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 11, 2025.President Donald Trump said he will provide details Thursday of what he and Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency claim are billions of dollars of wasteful and fraudulent government spending.
In fact, the condoms were sent to a province in Mozambique named Gaza as part of an HIV prevention measure. The updates that DOGE and Musk provide on his X social media platform are often vague and often don't contain documentation. Musk promised DOGE would use "maximum transparency" in its actions, even before Trump was elected in November. He said it would do weekly "DOGE casts" on X and update its Doge.gov website with its activity.
Elon Musk speaks during an event in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington.Despite Musk's companies SpaceX and Tesla being awarded at least $18 billion in federal contracts over the past decade and SpaceX winning more than $17 million worth of contracts since 2015, Musk did not squarely address his potential conflicts of interest with the government on Tuesday.
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