Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem encountered a hostile, hypocritical CNN host this morning complaining about Elon Musk and DOGE’s work downsizing and making the federal government more accountable.
As TGP readers know, President Trump last November announced Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy (who has since left) would head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). They would be tasked will rooting out all fraud within the government and given a greenlight to shutter ineffective programs.
“This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk said back then.
Indeed it has. DOGE has already identified hundreds of billions in government waste, fraud, and abuse in under three weeks. Moreover, they are beginning the process to shutting down corrupt agencies like USAID which have robbed the taxpayers blind while enriching Deep State bureaucrats.
During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Sunday morning, a hyperventilating Dana Bash constantly whimpered about Musk reportedly having access to the personal data of Americans, implying without evidence that he was going to use this information to spy on them instead rooting out fraud.
“Have you authorized Elon Musk and his team to have access to Americans’ personal data that is housed inside DHS?” Bash asked.
Noem wisely did not fall for Bash’s gotcha question.
“We are working at the president’s direction to find out what we can do to make our department much more efficient,” Noem replied. “This is essentially an audit of the federal government which needs to happen.”
One of the things I have been very clear to the appropriators in the Senate and the House is to give me the authority to reprogram funds,” she added.
Unwilling to listen to Noem, Bash continued to hyperventilate over Musk having access to personal data to which Noem said was authorized by Trump to find waste, fraud, and abuse.
“Elon Musk is part of the administration that is helping us identify where we can find savings and what we can do, and he has gone through the processes to make sure that he has the authority president has appointed him,” Noem explained.
“The work that he is doing by identifying waste, fraud and abuse. This information that he has is looking at programs, not focusing on personal data and information, not focusing on it,” she added.
“But he has access to it,” Bash complained.
“We’ll be continuing to talk to him about what all he has access to. But this audit needs to happen to make sure that we are going through a process that adds integrity back into these programs.”
WATCH:
Watch CNN’s Dana Bash have a total meltdown over @elonmusk‘s work at DOGE to restore efficiency to the federal government. pic.twitter.com/s3tt8TFpR4
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 9, 2025
Noem took to X after the interview to continue to school Bash further and arguably more effectively than she did on national TV:
“CNN’s Dana Bash pressed me this morning about data privacy and security leaks,” she wrote. “Let’s set the record straight: My family and I had our personal information exposed by the Biden administration—a blatant act of political weaponization.”
“President Trump and I have both been targeted, our private data leaked while the legacy media looked the other way. The Trump administration takes these threats seriously, she added. “Biden’s team, meanwhile, selectively leaked sensitive information for political gain.
“It’s un-American, and I assure you, it won’t happen on my watch.”
CNN’s Dana Bash pressed me this morning about data privacy and security leaks. Let’s set the record straight: My family and I had our personal information exposed by the Biden administration—a blatant act of political weaponization.
President Trump and I have both been targeted,… pic.twitter.com/Bk1D3A24cD
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) February 9, 2025
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