host: your caucus will support elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. as lawmakers came out after the meeting, we heard that the problem is in the room. it is republicans who are going to be the problem with having doge being responsible. there could be truth behind what they are saying. the bottom line is we are kicking off an idea that is not partisan. we now have four house democrats that have said i want to be a part of this also. government efficiency, whether you are a publican or a democrat needs to work for the american people. government has services that it provides that a lot of people are inefficiently being provided. so when they want to make these comments, they are right. if we are going to include any members congress that wants to be available and we will include an email address. we are going to take feedback and solicit feedback and specific problems or ideas that people have and we are going to work on them. the difference that they are not giving credible viewpoint and the president of the united states has not just commerce and ind

ahead with elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. elon and vivek ramaswamy arrived capitol hill in a short time that tiny seconds they arrived, apparently in the room in which they will meet with the speaker. it will be interesting to see what details come from the meeting. spiel in this meeting a buzz on capitol hill and great anticipation and recognizing biy for president trump. very interesting to hear the speaker's remarks coming into the assessment end. >> sandra: abe is excited for the meeting but hillary vaughn live on the hill and i can only imagine all that the excitement on the hill as these folks arrived today. >> sandra, a lot of excitement and vivek ramaswamy and speaker mike johnson walking by me to the meeting room. brainstorming session for everyone had to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget and from spending. that is a goal. this is also a way for elon musk and vivek ramaswamy to figure out who will work with them and who will stand in their way. at the end of the day, everyone is trimming the fat until the food

first of all, i have to say i agree with elon musk and vivek ramaswamy.i think they're pointing out the reality that we're living. >> uh, you could say and i hear schmeichel's point. >> i disagree with it, though, because i think it misses the fact that we want to get to the place where we can maximize the use of our own talent in this country. let's bring in the best and brightest from all around the world. let's really make our economy stronger. let's become even more tech dominant. that's the way, in fact, to elevate the whole country and to create more opportunity for americans of all kinds in the tech field. so i don't know why on earth we wouldn't want to grab all the talent out there, especially because if we don't, our competitors will. >> i think it's also fascinating that we're seeing this kind of open conflict. >> i think it's going to be the first of many. and of course, that speaks to the question of elon musk's role. i think really soon we're going to see more divergence between between elon musk and donald trump. it's natural, given each of

vivek ramaswamy spoke with our summit in d.c. hands where he and musk will look to cut spending, but doge will prioritize what is most important and logical and measured and be aggressive. just like a public company. >> is there any one thing that president trump told snu. >> he is keeping an open mind top down to say let's start with a clean slate and fresh. everything is in scope for efficiency. it is not one part of the federal government or the other. it is looking at it as a whole. are we respecting the taxpayer dollar? to use an analogy for those in the room, in the way the cfo would look at shareholder capital. >> let's discuss with david wu. good morning, david. >> thanks for having me. >> what did you make of what vivek ramaswamy had to say about the philosophy about cutting the governments? is it reason able within two years, july 4th, 2027, the 250th anniversary of the u.s. is that possible? >> i think it is. what you need to understand is why this is important. vivek ramaswamy and elon musk have the most important job

vivek ramaswamy.he says it's a cultural issue that there aren't more competitive engineers in the u.s. here's what he said online. a culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. a culture that venerates corey from boy meets world or zack and slater over screech and saved by the bell, or stefon over steve urkel and family matters will not produce the best engineers. but that argument is not going over well with trump's maga base, certainly not online. some of them saying we did not ask them to engineer an immigration policy. tech wants indentured servants, not high skilled workers. you don't even know what maga immigration policy is. now, trump himself, who i should note restricted h-1b visas in his first term, has said on the campaign trail this time around that he did want to make it easier for educated foreigners to work in the u.s. >> what i want to do, and what i will do is you graduate from a college i

let's get back to elon musk and vivek ramaswamy meeting with lawmakers on capitol hill today, vivek ramaswamyed. aishah hasnie joining us, she's there on capitol hill. what's the latest. >> this is the talk of capitol hill, everyone is on the lookout for elon musk. there hasn't been an our arrival shot yet, we are not sure he's on the grounds but we did hear there might be security detail outside the gop leader john thune's office, we will flag it to you if we can find him but we saw vivek ramaswamy head into this caucus meeting. joni ernst is heading that caucus. you can see the crowd press that is waiting to hear what happens in the meeting and talk to lawmakers as soon as they come out. f they want to cut government waste today, they want to reduce the federal workforce by 75%, cut $2 trillion in federal agencies, they want to get the job done by 2026 just two years elon musk has indicated one way to cut back is to fire federal employees who don't return to the office. not a lot of sufferings republicans and democrats together but dogeast seems to be sparking bipartisan buzz. >> it doesn't

we've heard from elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. they've made a lot of promises, a lot of them vague on how they want to cut spending. i know you're on the tax writing side, but you have a very big say in sort of the economics of the whole picture. do you have any red lines? >> you know, i think it's really important to have this dialog and these conversations. >> i'm excited about meeting with elon and vivek to see what direction they're wanting to go we, um, we truly believe that there's numerous areas that we can make government more efficient especially in my will of jurisdiction, the irs, i think that it would be a great service to the american people if we figure out ways to make it much more efficient. when people are paying their taxes, filing their taxes and so it will be interesting to hear the different areas they're looking at of course, cutting spending, reducing the size of government. but efficiency, i think is extremely important. >> so when you say the irs, are you talking about making it more efficient, efficient t

vivek ramaswamy and nikki haley have a very contested relationship. it's often gotten ugly at different points in time, but particularly on the campaign campaign trail. nikki haley has come after vivek before because of attacks, she said on her children. uh, vivek has called her a fascist. they have been going at it for quite some time, and i think part of the part of the tension here, too, is that as nikki haley has fallen out of favor with the maga base, one of the people that she has kind of pointed to is taking essentially taking her place is somebody like vivek ramaswamy. her argument has been that he does not fully understand what it means to actually be part of this conservative movement, because if you think about vivek ramaswamy actual history and longer trajectory, he is very transactional. he is relatively new to the conservative movement and certainly new to the maga movement. that was laura loomer's point. that was several other of the kind of high profile maga people who jumped into this conversation. but i would also point out that this

ramaswamy.ou have the headline, democratic state the agency is unconstitutional and illegal. one said it is illegal in an interview with cnn. they have not asked to meet with me, but the impoundment funds that are appropriated by the congress is unconstitutional and illegal. good luck to them. in oklahoma, independent. do support this idea of the department of government efficiency, doge? talking to you. all right. moving on. charles, tennessee, democrat. you support the department of government efficiency? caller: yes. i think here in tennessee, we have a lot of factories here. [indiscernible] people quit their jobs. they don't really go back to work. [indiscernible] factories that have good health insurance. [indiscernible] and it doesn't cost them nothing. they need to have some skin in the game because people working or paying taxes. you have all these jobs open. they ought to start charging them because the people working cannot afford to keep paying them. host: michelle, facebook. she post

ramaswamy and mr.lked about doge, a candidate i believe would be great for chair for ftc in trump administration, i thanked elon for what he meant to stopping censorship central complex and done to defend first amendment, him was just a good sign for so many people, i took time to thank him in the meeting we talked about a lot of things, i love what you said in the opening not just about reducing spending. which we need, but also about making government more efficient by getting rid of regulations that hurt the economic growth. it is so purpose. and it is -- so important and make people come to work, people who work for government it is all remote in virginia or maryland, no. if you have to get to work, elon musk understands that like you do. i like what where they are headed, i think it will be helpful. larry: regulatory stap they want to stop, backed up by supreme court decision. it is the modern version of socialism, val plans -- st is central planning. they do not have a mandate from the constituti

musk and vivek ramaswamy, they have our full support. when they don't get answers we'll haul people before next congress and get answers and help them do their job better so july 4 2026, when they are expected to close this up, this is a huge success. >> todd: here is billions if not trillions of dollars. rules are first thing they need to start evaluating, that is where other cuts come from. here is speaker johnson about what is ahead. listen. >> we have a long list of areas where there are waste, fraud and abuses. the oversight committee in the house has a new subcommittee that will laser fo us can focus on that. >> todd: there has always been waste, there should never be fraud. why is our government allowed fraud, to persist this long? why is it taking doge to finally do away with fraud? >> there are so many protections for bureaucrats, the deep state is so strong and i think this idea that we need this in the first place is a symptom of the abuse and problem chronic in our federal government and this comes from lessons president trum

look, ramaswamy makes a very good point.ay the country is filled with mediocrity. how is this going to sit with trump voters, many of whom believe trump stands up for the american working class? >> you already had a newsperson tell ramaswamy in his face that she would never vote for him because he is south asian. now, that is a trump supporter who said that. but here is the deal. for vivek ramaswamy to say the man who ran for president was an ivy league or was a bit much. but let me say this as well, sam. you have a lot of people out here who are engaged in this cyber world. you have a lot of people and a lot of these institutions, these educational institutions, a lot of minority kids wanting to go into coding and beyond because this is a lucrative field. and do call americans mediocre, that is saying a lot. and if he ever tried to run for president again, people would hold that to him. it will be plastered on his face. on his four head. four as he speaks. that is crazy. but i adalso want to say something else really fast w

. >>> let's go to capitol hill now, where elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are meeting with lawmakers. julie tsirkin is there, and speaker johnson just spoke. we thought he woith mare from the two billionaires but get us up to speed. what's happening? >> reporter: no, vivek ramaswamy and elon musk with his son, i should add, who has been up with him for meetings all day, walked right past the cameras and house speaker mike johnson spoke to reporters alone. he took two questions. he didn't really lay out any specifics, as elon musk has and earlier in the day when i pressed him, what specific cuts are you talking about? what are you looking to target? what areas will you focus on? everybody today who has met with musk and musk himself say they have been talking in general terms and the public's money should be spent wisely. what johnson just said is the doge effort will be bipartisan. it's bicameral. it should be those things. he pointed to a few democrats that expressed interest in joining the house committee as well as the senate caucus, which is an independent effort. he said he was a

ramaswamy talked around that as well.willing to put any detail on this at all and maybe that's behind closed doors what they're going to start to do on capitol hill today. it's a very, very tall order. >> yeah, and we're waiting to hear from them. obviously, the podium is there. we're waiting for them to show up. they've also been talking about a topic that could have broad, popular support. getting rid of daylight savings time. musk wrote looks like the people want to abolish the annoying time changes. ramaswamy responded it's inefficient and easy to change. i know if that's part of a purview, never the less, is it your sense that while the budget may be the central focus of doge, the sky's the limit on potential inflounce? >> we're in a great period for them because they don't have any power yet. trump's not in office. this is the time to sort of spit ball and the sky's the limit. everything seems so easy. but i do think it's a little worrisome for me for them now that instead of focusing on okay, we're going to cut was

ultimately ramaswamy and musk have big plans for doge. they will need congress's help to get the plans in place and make the cuts they want to make. here is what ramaswamy told me on his way in this morning. >> yesterday he were with us on cnbc, about what you are hoping to say today. what is your message to the lawmakers you are meeting with? >> look forward to seeing more we have to say. >> can you actually cut anything without congress cutting you? you want to cut 2 trillion. >> we have to get in here, guys. >> last question, how do you convince lawmakers who will not help you in this effort? what can you say to persuade them to work with you? >> thank you, guys, we appreciate it. thank you. >> ramaswamy and musk want to downsize the federal workforce, suck out waste, fraud and abuse and supercharge by ripping up thousands of pages of regulations. today in meetings with lawmakers is where they'll get down to the nitty-gritty. a lot of downsizing that musk and ramaswamy can get done without congress. trump can cancel out regulations thr

liz: well isn't that what elon and vivek ramaswamy are doing right now?t inefficiency. you just talked about making commercial operations more efficient. government operations more efficient. have you talked to elon musk or vivek about -- >> look without going into it, palantir, we want to support the u.s. government. i completely support their mission and i don't, again, there's two parts of the mission. making, getting out waste, figuring out what works, investing in what works but there is also, we need more, we have legitimacy in this culture. almost all our institutions are in charge of measuring, fixing, doing things, have little legitimacy whether they deserve it or not no one believes when the icc says something. we believe that the doctor is politicized, we believe our universities aren't teaching anything valuable. we don't trust. and neither side trusts and the idea that blue is right or whatever, no one believes it. so we need transparency as the first step to reinvigorating legitimacy in this culture, and i wholeheartedly support what they ar

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uh, bill de blasio, jared polis also agreeing with musk and ramaswamy.i mean, democrats crossing lines to agree with the doge guys. i mean, is this a preview of what's to come? >> i think it's certainly possible. again, especially when we're dealing with such a breadth of issues, such a breadth of matters that are so hot. button. i think that this quite possibly is look, we saw this happen sometimes during the first trump administration. it's entirely possible that we see this come the second trump administration have these odd coalitions form. sometimes we see folks on the ultra right and the ultra left join forces and agree with various matters. yes, i think that this is very possibly an example of what we may see in the looming trump administration, but i also expect things to remain very partisan. we're currently in a moment of high partisanship, high ideological differences. we've seen that play out on a number of different occasions, and i don't suspect that will change. but could we potentially see these moments of odd bedfellows going forward? ab

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we know that vivek ramaswamy wants to cut 75% of the federal workforce.e nothing but billionaires who have been appointed to hopefully make the decisions for us every day working families and i don't know how that will work out but we will see. but why is it we are having a conversation about what it takes to bring in more revenue? and what it would look like is these people have now been put into position or have been put up to been in position and maybe they should start paying their fair share and start right there and maybe looking at cuts to pbs are looking at cuts such as snap benefits are looking to make sure that we cut down on the workforce for social security or maybe even cutting back on social security or maybe we should start with making sure we have more income coming in. i can guarantee that elon musk is a few extra dollars that he could lend to help the country out. >> i mean, i know he sounds like a line in the beer commercial but he is the world's richest man but he has a lot of conflict with the federal government where he has this mass

elon musk y ramaswamy provocaron un enfrentamiento sobre migraciÓn e industria tecnolÓgica.y china. recordemos que el presidente electo, donald trump habÍa prohibido este visado porque le quitaba el trabajo a los norte americanos. reportera: elon musk y ramaswamy desatan este problema, explican que los ingenieros talentosos de estados unidos son muy bajos. ramaswamy dice que hay escasez de trabajadores especializados en estados unidos por la mediocridad que ha reinado por mucho tiempo. ellos desataron la ira ante los defensores de el presidente electo, donald trump. [habla en inglÉs] >> los trabajos estadounidenses, son para trabajadores estadounidenses, y si tenemos que tener una pelea, vamos a tenerla ahora, asÍ hablÓ otro aliado de estados unidos steven bannon. insisten que amÉrica es primero. >> es muy difÍcil. usualmente los abogados tenemos un porcentaje, un 30% para los que estÁn sujetos. reportera: elon musk, cuyas empresas depende de trabajadores extranjeros, dijo que tendrÍa que ir a la guerra con esto. algunas cuentas de x fueron eliminadas. el presidente electo,

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so we're we're working with with musk and ramaswamy, and their their staffers. they're creating this commission to have an expiration date. the expiration date is going to be july 4th, 2026. so they're going to try to make these recommendations over the over the first year and a half of the trump administration and then then walk away. and that's kind of setting an example as to how you can create something in the government, but then have a sunset clause to where it ends. the problem now in government, it's been the problem for decades is that you create a government program or create a government agency. it never goes away. even when it becomes obsolete or inefficient. if anything, it grows every year and they have a cost of living adjustment and all of that. so what doge is trying to do is just have a sincere effort to try to ensure that government is more efficient and tax dollars are better spent. >> so let's talk a little bit more about that, because our reporting indicates house republicans plan to put a lot of doj's goals into the reconciliation bill. wh

it sounds like musk and ramaswamy want to go further than that.eliminate the cfpb entirely. maybe there is not so much of an appetite to do that. certainly not among democrats like senator warren who praises that agency on a regular basis and has previously said it is here to stay. but we'll see if doge gets their say in the matter, aishah. >> aishah: grady trimble, live at the white house. thanks. >> griff: check it out. a fearless surfer catches a monstrous wave and gets chewed up and disappears in a heart pounding wipe-out. he lives to tell about it. he joins us to tell us about his wild encounter next. ♪ hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he's the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore. wow. so sudden. um, we're not about to have the "we need life insurance" conversation again, are we? no, we're having the "we're getting coverage so we don't have to worry about it" conversation. so you're calling about the $9.95 a month plan -from colonial penn? -i am. we put it off long e

[end video clip] host: fever grandma sahni on wednesday -- vivek ramaswamy on wednesday. on thursday, he and elon musk were on capitol hill, and then they worked over to the house site and met with lawmakers behind closed doors. we are asking you to join the conversation in washington. how can the federal government become more efficient? warren, florida, republican. caller: the government needs to get out of the way. social security before they took 2.9 7 trillion away from it, they said they put bonds in their to pay and 1.5 interest rate, and now it is part of the general fund. they need to eliminate education department, get it back down to the state. they need to pass a budget saying that they will not go over there borrowing of 1.6 trillion year. they need to gather a balanced budget amendment so they can go over 3% or around there, their budget, no more turning money. and they need to do that. no matter what, and they need to eliminate that somehow. host: raanan, tim -- rhonda, democrat, brooklyn. can the government be more efficient? caller: yes. there's no way fo

and will elon musk and vivek ramaswamy testify? >> i have no reason to assume that we would not include them. we have not really broken out in the new congress yet. we will do that and we will plan the schedule. we're in essentially the first three or four days of this. it will be open and there's a reason why we need the american people to know what we're doing and why, because it's got to pass their smell test and that's why we push what's in the best interests for the american people. >> let's start telling the american people what's happening by telling them what happened behind closed doors yesterday with house republicans. what did you hear from those two, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy? >> well, it's very simple. they came and had an opportunity to meet 30 people they had never met and then to meet about 200 members of congress, probably that they had never met, and it gave them an opportunity to say that we are in this battle, we're in this fight because we are -- we put our companies -- we invested our self, we are doing th

ramaswamy and mr. musk home. tell donald trump he is not going to take the oath of office until january 20. they need to approve the bill. the original bill. and let's go home for christmas. host: all right. democratic caller. her message to lawmakers here in washington as they face a deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown. gary in huntsville, alabama. a republican. hi. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i, too, am a retired military and disabled vet. so i have lived through a few of these shutdowns over the years. none of them were fun. however, another comment about elon musk being putting up as speaker. i totally disagree with that. he is not an elected official. so therefore i would highly object to that. as far as him trying to help rein in spending on the first bill, it was washington stadium and several other particular projects put in there. yes, take that out. take care of the farmers, take care of the people in north carolina. get a decent c.r.. get it passed today. becaus

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vivek ramaswamy, jump's pick to/ government spending, said...an elon musk and it angered some trump supporter �*s who are opposed to immigration, among them nikki haley, of course a former republican presidential candidate. she said in response... let's bring in bbc reporter mike to break this down. they are calling as a make america great again civil war. walk us through this disagreement amongstjumbo's disagreement amongst jumbo's base, elon disagreement amongstjumbo's base, elon musk, vivek ramaswamy speaking out at least in some favour of us immigration laws at some point. i wouldn't go so far as calling this a civil war but certainly a spat. not the one the —— the only one we have seen that there is still these policy decisions that are being played out in real—time and on social media we are seeing i suppose the tech billionaires who are inviting jump against the people against nikki haley and the some more of the anti—immigration crowd including some far right characters who are opposed to these age b—1visas. d0 characters who are opposed

since cnn's kfile uncovered past comments of ramaswamy, calling musk a puppet for the chinese communist party. >> you have no reason to think that elon won't jump like a circus monkey when xi jinping calls in the hour of need. >> the pair will become regulars here on the hill thursday's meeting is the first of many to game out how to dramatically shrink the us government. >> the future is going to be amazing on the circus monkey, comments ramaswamy telling cnn that he made them before he met and got to know musk. >> but there are still lots of questions as far as you know, what these men are proposing and whether they can truly pull it off. and that's why the partnerships that they began forging here on capitol hill are going to be certainly very critical for them to get many of their recommendations over the finish line because it is congress that decides what gets funded and by how much. rene marsh, cnn, capitol hill house republicans have blocked the release of an ethics committee report on former congressman matt gaetz. >> trump's original pick for attorney general withdrew from con

con Él tambiÉn se encontraba vivek ramaswamy.e muy poco a la gente. al final de cuentas Él no sabe nado del gobierno. reportera: el presidente de la cÁmara de representantes nos dijo que la reuniÓn darÍa una lluvia de ideas para reducir gastos. " lo primero que creo que vamos a hacer es que los trabajadores federales vuelvan a sus oficinas". este congresista dijo que tambiÉn se discutiÓ sobre el uso de la ley de confiscaciÓn, que permitirÍa a donald trump pasar por alto el congreso y recortar el gasto pÚblico. una historia diferente enfrenta el nominado para dirigir el pentÁgono, quien tuvo otra ronda de conversaciones con senadores republicanos. hoy enardeciÓ a trump por darle la oportunidad en momento en el que sigue la controversia sobre acusaciones de mala gestiÓn de fondos, conducta sexual inapropiada y por estar intoxicado en el trabajo. esta senadora republicana le dijo a fox news que aÚn no estÁ lista para apoyarlo. hegseth dijo que se comprometÍa para luchar por cada voto siempre y cuando trump lo quiera en el puesto. il

broke the law mandate also on senator bernie sanders canvassing the guest from elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are right when comes to the pentagon wasted have the story and wor radio house marks malcolm is going to talk about why doge desperately needed international and national's capitol and the growing majority of americans, support the incoming trump white house and we have an outraged top democrats strategist james was to him saying yes audit that campaign and it works through $2.5 billion and he is income of the the severely damage the democratic grant over the last decade for some of the story. in the latest action is our special counsel david weiss, city will fight president biden while pardoning a 700 biting, after he got hundred pleaded guilty in court, to all charges of evading $1.4 million in taxes in a filing tax returns and taking false deductions for a luxury lifestyle including for prostitutes and of the gun charge and is the right to fox news the senior national course monica rick and we love you see him here live coming to us from the white house rich with the update and wha

businessman vivek ramaswamy defending the visas. he said, our american culture has venerated mediocrity eml excellence too long. the visa programs allow them to work in technology and medicine. nikki haley among those pushing back against ramaswamy. we slu be inhould be investing american workers. trump criticized the program and suspended it in 2020 during the pandemic. >> mary alice, trump's team making the news about tiktok, asking the supreme court to delay the law banning the app. >> >> reporter: that's right. the law to ban the app is set to go into affect on january 19th, the day before he is inaugurated. they have asked the court to delay that to try to give the incoming president to negotiate a resolution to save the platform and address national security concerns. >> something to watch in the weeks ahead. thank you. >>> next, a potentially troubling new development about the bird flu. the cdc reporting the virus mee ta mutated in a patient in the u.s. which could make it easier to spread. no transmissions to other people h

if the dogthe, prepare, he vivek ramaswamy at elon musk can bring that spending. it is a question the deficit whether they get deficit under control and the uncertainty about tariffs and i'm struck by the market, that donald trump has promised, they are going to happen, not good news for some us companies but for the overall economy it won't be good, a huge tax increase that infects consumers and hit hard by that. a lot of people paying too much attention that people are optimistic for. neil: financial times story, playing off the idea that these tariffs are cudgels to get what you want to get the concessions out of these countries but a cudgel can turn into a curse. great seeing you, wonderful weekend, jerry baker, wall street journal, charlie gasparino with us right now. looking at the personnel and all the people donald trump is surrounding himself with but the markets have been remarkable since this election. is there a sense that they are pricing everything? charles: what is interesting is some of this is exuberance. part of it has to be air rational. bitcoin

musk and biotech entrepreneur and former republican presidential candidate ramaswamy have been vocal on social media about where the government waste is. >> there's a lot lower hanging fruit in terms of waste, fraud and abuse error, program integrity failures that you got to go after first. >> but thursday was their first real strategy session with republican lawmakers about where to start and how to cut musk's goal of $2 trillion in spending something budget experts across the political spectrum say is virtually impossible. 70% of federal government spending not including interest, consists of payments to americans for programs such as social security, medicare medicaid and more. if those programs are spared, experts expect dramatic cuts to programs like food stamps, home heating assistance, housing aid, food safety inspections, and infrastructure. >> everything is on the table. >> on x ramaswamy has mused about clawing back billions in federal loans and grants that the biden administration is disbursing at a rapid clip to cement his legislative legacy, including a key loan to ev st

vivek ramaswamy, trump�*s pick to help slash government spending, sparked the controversy with a post foreign—born and first—generation engineers over �*native�* americans isn�*t because of an innate american iq deficit". he went on to say that "american culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long."(pres)while those comments were backed by billionaire businessman elon musk — it angered trump supporters opposed to immigration. among them — nikki haley, a former republican presidential candidate. she said in response "we should be investing and prioritizing in americans, not foreign workers." i�*ve been speaking with the bbcs mike wendling — who has been looking into the story. they�*re calling this a make america great again civil war. walk us through this disagreement amongst trump�*s base, elon musk, vivek ramaswamy, speaking out at least in some favour of us immigration laws at some point. i wouldn�*t go so far as calling this a civil war but certainly a spat. not the first one we have seen but there is still these policy decisions that are being played out in

>> the same thing on elon and ramaswamy. surrounded by people with no experience who are simply happy to cos play and dress up like government officials. this is a billionaire who spent his own money to go to space and be like an astronaut and now he's going to lead nasa? it's not leading nasa any time. next year, we have artemis 2 which is going to send people around the moon for the first time in a long time. this mission is critical because it's going to lead to artemis 3. having a guy who wants to cos play as a government official, let's see, maybe he's going to try to put himself on the ship to get a free ride to the moon or something, but it shows how unserious trump is by putting these loyalist billionaires in these places. in the election, trump was able to capture a significant amount of working class americans. i think people are going to wake up as they turn on the news and see he's not fighting for working people, not fighting for working families. he's looking to prop up his friends, billionaires and polluters i

plus we're also following new details out of washington, where today elon musk and vivek ramaswamy went to capitol hill to talk about their specifics on cutting government spending ellen and vivek talked about having a a naughty list you only come across an artist like luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> he was a boss from the beginning. luther said. i have a sound in my head. i got to get it out you are my shining star. it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life had extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> if we were to be able to talk to luther as fans, we'd be able to say we just love you, luther. >> never too much new year's day at eight on cnn. louis cut muhammad action. >> louis. louis. cut. ma on her face. louis. >> okay everybody. >> that's lunch but musk. >> no no, no compare hotels and hotels.com app. >> dry. tired itchy. >> burning my dry eye. symptoms got worse over time. >> my eye doctor explained the root was inflammation sidra was made for that. so relief is lasting. >> sidra treats the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. don't use

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy laying out a framework for cutting wasteful government spending republican lawmakers are voicing support. >> government is too big and too many things it does nothing will. >> making government work better for the taxpayers that the ultimate objective a lot of good ideas we talked about. >> you can focus into a people's money that we have to do the job on capitol hill authorizing agencies. maria: their skeptics on the left, watch. >> impoundment of funds that have been appropriate by the congress is unconstitutional and illegal. there is no such department of government efficiency it is made up. >> this is a scam unless they're going to/social security and medicare and veterans affairs, they are never going to get to $2 trillion. maria: joining us from the house judiciary and oversight committee arizona congressman andy biggs, good to see you, thank you for joining us, you are in the meeting with elon musk and vivek ramaswamy on capitol hill, what can you tell us we have not heard about the details. >> briefly elon musk and vivek ramaswamy made their case br

ramaswamy says that that rule will drive low income americans to high cost pay day loans instead, ande says it is flat out government overreach. writing in that post, this latest cfpb is just a symptom of a deeper and unconstitutional cancer of unelected bureaucrats substituting their policy judgments for those of congress. he goes on to say that's unamerican, and needs to end. a little bit more about that rule he's referring to. it's part of president biden's war on what biden calls junk fees. it requires banks with more than $10 billion in assets to reduce their overdraft fees from an average of 35 bucks to five dollars when an account goes negative. banks also have the option to charge only what overdrafts cost them in losses, or they can charge any amount, if they treat the overdraft fee like a loan, and disclose clearly the interest rate. republicans in congress know if they want to take action on this , or any other recommendation from doge, it's going to be up to them. >> they're not really going to have any authority. yes they can point out problems and where the waste, fraud

to be very clear, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, weren't they foreign born workers?y got here on a visa. >> and he is here because he wanted one of them visas. and now he's an actual american citizen. but let's be very clear. there is nothing wrong with people who are not from this country coming here, making a better life, contributing to the american fabric, okay. that's something i fundamentally believe in. america is the land of the free, home of the brave, all that stuff, that elon musk was tweeting about. however, please don't come for americans. and i would like, let's be very clear. i would like white americans to stand up. this is your calling card, honey, when is your banner because they're coming for you. they say white and lazy. that's crazy. that's crazy. and i said it. you would be coming for me. i would never say it. >> and that is the point. but what you have happening here is the very thing that white folks have said about black people. >> i'm sorry, vivek was born in the u.s. >> and for generations, they were saying that about white people and they

. >> we are all excited and i know you are excited that elon musk and vivek ramaswamy have joined us today. it's the beginning of a journey. you heard what the oge is all about. it's a new thing. it's a new day in washington and america. >> this incoming speaker of the house, current speaker spent his day at the capitol giving elon musk and vivek ramaswamy tour. here's a shot at the meeting lawmakers on the hill. a photo shared of social media by the utah senator mike lee. part of the reason congressional republicans are affecting these two and their new made up, not actual governmental department of government efficiency is because they have vowed 2/the size of the federal government by cutting an astounding and unbelievable $2 trillion out of the budget. now, just to be clear, because budget math is easy to lose sight of. the top lines is it's a preposterous, widely radical, effectively impossible. just like their plan to cut the number of federal agencies by more than 75%, but, this is key, the house speakers behind it. >> musk wants to take government agencies to 99. canopy done

. >> republicans meeting with elon musk and vivek ramaswamy about their plans to make major cuts to the federal budget and mission postponed another setback in nasa's plan for lunar exploration. so when will man set foot again on the moon all right. 5 a.m. here on the east coast, a live look at the nation's capital on this friday morning. good morning everyone i'm kasie hunt. we made it. it's friday. it's wonderful to have you with us. there are new clues this morning in the manhunt in new york. a flirtatious smile could be the mistake that trips up the man that police are calling a person of interest wanted for questioning in connection to the wednesday killing of the unitedhealthcare ceo this newly released surveillance footage capturing the man smiling after the clerk at the hostel he was staying at asked him to lower his mask, a source tells cnn he used a fake new jersey driver's license when checking in. that was on manhattan's upper west side, and there is also new video of the suspect suspected gunman on an e-bike escaping from the crime scene. and heading towards central park as

elon musk and ramaswamy are in charge of cutting government waste.onflicts of interest. he makes billions of dollars from government contracts. "americans are entitled to know..." >> fox business correspondent grady trimble is reporting live from the warehouse. hi. >> doge is full speed ahead. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy have set their sights on a familiar target, financial regulators in the united states. in the past, they have suggested that maybe those regulators could be consolidated or outright eliminated entirely and now they're doubling down on that proposition. in a post on "x," ramaswamy is specifically calling out the consumer financial protection bureau for overreach because of an overdraft fee rule finalized less than two weeks before christmas. ramaswamy argues that that will lead lower income americans to high cost payday loans. he also writes that it is going a bridge too far. this latest gambit of the cfpd is a symptom of a deeper and unconstitutional cancer substituting their policy judgments for those of congress. he says that's u

we saw musk and ramaswamy on the hill yesterday speaking to lawmakers. i think something they're going to have to face is the starkness of what it takes to actually do some of these things. they're going to need cooperation from congress who, of course, has the power of the purse. but they believe they'll be able to make cuts through executive action. they have not answered straight questions about exactly what would be on the chopping block. for sure they have made clear they believe that there's too many federal workers. they want to see layoffs. they want to see people leaving the government. but some things that are really the biggest things on the ticket would be defense spending, entitlement programs, medicare, social security, but touching any of those thbe deeply unpopular. those are all -- have strong bipartisan support. so it's going to be interesting to see where they can actually find cuts because really everything left on the table does not really amount to much and not the goals they're trying to meet which is trillions of dollars in federa

vivek ramaswamy and elon musk met with lawmakers to discuss plans for doge, department of governmentlary vaughn on capitol hill. all right, hillary, what came out of those meetings? >> reporter: stuart, this was a 6-hour brainstorm thing session with elon musk, vivek ramaswamy and lawmakers, and it was kind of like an open mic night meets "shark tank. " lawmakers taking turns going to the mic, pitching their ideas to musk and ramaswamy about places that they think can be cut in the federal government. but while republicans are rallying behind doge, some democrats are being downers about the idea. >> what are your thoughts on e elon musk and ramaswamy deciding or trying to decide what stays and what goes in the federal government? >> well, it's illegal. you know, they haven't asked to meet with me, but the impoundment of funds that have been appropriated by the congress is unconstitutional and illegal. there is no such department of government efficiency. it's made up. so good luck to 'em. >> reporter: so musk and ramaswamy might have to figure out how to work around congress if congr