He Audited the Pentagon. Here’s Where the Waste Really Is
We found the waste Elon Musk and DOGE won’t cut: it’s defense contractors. The Department of Defense funnels $450 billion of taxpayer dollars a year to private military contractors. But Musk is too focused on cutting DEI initiatives (0.01% of the size of the defense budget) to tackle the real waste and fraud. Will the Trump administration take action on the real government waste?
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@donaldhollingsworth3875
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
The only way to get the defense contractors in line, is to never give the defense contractors "never give the defense contractors any money until they have made any 10 working prototypes on their own dime & then only paying them 60% of what they want".
@teddymartinii1979
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
A big problem is that the strength of our National Defense is measured by how much we spend for it. The a Congressman says I voted to increase the Defense budget by six percent, it is assumed that that money will automatically make our National Defense stronger. Using that logic, when I shop for a car, I should pick the most expensive one, whether it is what I need, or not.
@noisevoyager7307
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Nice channel you had here…
@viva_am839
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Corruption Corruption Corruption
We need government overhaul now!!!
@NameName-yc7kv
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
The profit also is used to pay wages and if their not doing job creation, the contracts should be nullified.
@NameName-yc7kv
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
They left McDonnellDouglass off the list of contractors, why…
@iam5085
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Trumps wealth has assumingly also increased while being a president, childs play now with virtual money that cannot be traced.
@rachelm9350
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
That woman doesn't know why the govt uses cost type contracts. Usually they last five+ years and are large items that have a lot of manpower. Each year they give estimates which are verified by the government. It's also used for high risk projects. They can still be cancelled. Or it's for something very specialized. She is right about lack of competition. The bigger issue I see is small businesses being pass-through locations. So they upsell parts to the military at profit on things they didn't build. Also service agreements tend to get passed along to lower level contractors. But it is true they act like a monopoly. It would be better to hire more engineers at the DOD, more contract administrators, etc. But all the DOD sees is cuts in personnel and oversight and larger dumber contracts.
@deniceeverham9467
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Republicans hate anything that give the people power. First thing Reagan did was attack the unions. Then he convinced them that giving tax breaks to the very rich would trickle down to the people ! Some still believe that malarky ! Hahaha 😂
@whiskeytangohotel6624
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
This wasn’t about finding waste. That was the cover story for firing people that were in their way. The math never worked out for the firings vs money saving from the beginning.
@philstone5195
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Time for change. However, it won't happen until a different administration acknowledges the problem and undertakes an overhaul.
@Celis.C
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
It's almost like it's a macrocosm of the entire economy.
@MoChaChad
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Elon tried but when he got to defense budget…. It’s truly un-fixable. If he went down that rabbit hole a crazy kid would kill him.
@jeffalvich9434
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Let us not forget either that President Bush number 42 by executive order terminated the inspector general's program for the entire DOD contractors cadre.
His solution was for each company president to sign a single sheet of paper agreeing to comply with all dod requirements…..
Ok stop laughing soooo hard.
My wife and self were both working in the industry at the time when this happened and we knew the corruption was going to go through the roof.
It did…
An example…..in 10 years Hughes Aircraft Company which under a forced sale was purchased by general motors, was criminally charged with felonies…. For falsifying test reports on 70+ Programs.
Displaced not only our lives but our military's lives at immediate threat in risk because of the known defective products that were sold and delivered to the military.
Missiles, satellites, radar units… Silicon chips and software just to name a few
@agnescleary2312
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
The real waste is awarding Elon Musk billions of government contracts. He's as big a grifter as Trump.
@tanana3000
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
When I was in the Navy, when we knew the inspectors were coming we’d just get some Milvans, fill them with the unaccounted for stuff, transport them across base to another squadron and then go pick them back up after the inspectors left.
@AstuteClippy
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
How is it waste she asked 😳
@markvis4106
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
9:27 1.9 million for holistic DEI transformation and training……. what if you kept it and slashed the program before that one? would that not be a bigger cut? what is it that makes "holistic DEI transformation and training" specifically wasteful as a 1.9 million program, compared to the previous program which was BILLIONS? just cause it's new? is that not backwards in context of elon musk's "innovate or get fired" policy?
@texasranger6545
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Corporate guns before civilian butter. Always.
@jesse73772
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
But wait, trumps supposed to save America!
@USA-CIA-NED_ProxyDeathSquadOps
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
no right to repair:
Apple iPhones
John Deere Farm Equipment
US Automobile Mfrs
…
US Military Weapons Mfrs
👆
🤣💡👍
@batchelerjr
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
I think you children have about 75% of the picture but the other 25% is unbelievable. But that doesn't make it false.
@NoMoreVoxPops
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Its no coincidence that Musks pay has increased from $300 billion to a new level of decadence of $500 billion per annum since his political affiliations became more explcit.
@blaggomatic
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
This is a very informative video and I appreciate these facts being said, however they did not mention how Trump stopping Elon from auditing the pentagon. Elon was ready to audit and then Trump kicked him out!
@Arguewithyourmom
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Contractors are running at 40-70% margins and don’t get checked for it.
@ddavis4730
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
They've been robbing us blind through the DOD all these fake contracts
@m3ch4n1k
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
It is everywhere. In the automotive industry waste and fraud is the bread and butter of the entire industry. It's in everything humans do.
@wanderingquestions7501
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Likely why Musk was run out of Washington. He was asking too many questions and saw too much.
@sadhbhjohannesiesuldtfjorthr
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Elon musk ought to make his own line of tanks and fighter jets to compete with these wasteful and greedy people.
@tonycarl2002
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Giving it to the defense industry
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