President Trump on Friday gave a vote of confidence in tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s work on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying that his billionaire ally is doing a “very good job.”

“Elon is doing a great job. He’s finding tremendous fraud and corruption and waste. You see it with the USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development], but you’re going to see it even more so with other agencies and other parts of government,” the president told reporters.

Trump added, “He’s got a staff that’s fantastic, he’s wanted to be able to do this for a long time.”

“I think we’re going to be very close to balancing budgets for the first time for many years."

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