Fox’s Jessica Tarlov Confronts Musk Over Cuts to Agencies Probing Him: ‘Explain That to the American People’
Fox News anchor Jessica Tarlov pressed Elon Musk on his DOGE cuts to agencies that are charged with oversight of businesses in which Musk has a financial interest.
Musk and President Donald Trump have been widely criticized and scrutinized for potential conflicts of interest between Musk’s government role and his businesses.
Musk was a guest on Tuesday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Five, during which Tarlov confronted Musk on the issue — and was met with familiar-sounding responses:
JESSICA TARLOV, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: OK. Well, liberal Tesla lover here. My sister has two in her family, so have not thrown any Molotov cocktails recently.
(LAUGHTER)
MUSK: Thanks.
TARLOV: But I wanted to talk to you about what DOGE has been doing.
So you have been making cuts to a lot of the agencies that have open investigations and regulatory battles with your companies. At the same time, you continue to get billions in government contracts. Tesla gets billions in subsidies.
How do you explain that to the American people?
MUSK: Well, everything that DOGE does is an open book. So we’re, I think, the most transparent action, the most transparent organization in government every. Every single DOGE action is listed on the DOGE.gov Web site. It’s also listed on the X handle.
So if anyone has a concern about any one of those actions, they can bring that up. They can raise that. And I do want to say, like, sometimes, we make a mistake. Nobody bats .1000. We will at times make a mistake. And we will make a mistake. We will act very quickly to correct it. I am under such an extreme spotlight, so much scrutiny, that it is literally impossible for me to get away with anything nefarious, and, obviously, nor do I wish to.
So this is a case where we have radical transparency. We’re actually willing to admit that we do make mistakes. Often, people are not willing to admit they make mistakes, but we are. And — but we want to emphasize we fix them quickly and we’re trying to do the right thing for the American taxpayer, for the American people. And I think history will be the judge that what we have done here and what we’re doing is a very good thing for the strength and future of America.
PIRRO: OK. OK.
Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Five.
