Trump Blurts Stunning Aside When Fox’s Doocy Presses Him On DOGE Access — ‘We Don’t Have Very Good Security’ In US
President Donald Trump blurted a stunning admission when Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed him about DOGE accessing sensitive Treasury Dept. data
Trump held a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Ishiba on Friday, during which he faced a raft of Elon Musk–related questions.
Doocy kicked off with a provocative question about Musk’s “love” for Trump — but then pressed him to explain why DOGE needs access to “everyday Americans’ personal information.”
Trump began his answer by blurting out an aside that probably wasn’t reassuring to those “everyday Americans” concerned about their personal info:
PETER DOOCY: So Democratic lawmakers are really upset that DOGE engineers have access to the Treasury payment systems.
[inaudible].
They’re saying that these systems are used to disburse trillions of dollars each year and everyday Americans’ personal information like Social Security numbers, home addresses, bank accounts. Why does DOGE need all of that?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, it doesn’t, but they get it very easily. I mean, we don’t have very good security in our country, and they get it very easily. And what we’re doing, if you look at, what has just taken place with respect to some of the investments that have been made on another agency that people have been talking about for years, but nobody did anything about it.
It’s absolutely obscene. Dangerous, bad, very costly. I mean, virtually every investment made is a con job. There’s nothing of value to anybody unless there’s a kickback scheme going on, which is possible. And we’re going to be doing more and more of that. We’re going to be looking at Department of Education. We’re going to be looking at even our military. We’re going to be looking at tremendous amounts of money, Peter, being spent on things that bear no relationship to anything and have no value. We’re talking about trillions of dollars. It will be, in the end, trillions of dollars being absolutely wasted and perhaps illegally.
I would say certainly in many cases illegally, but perhaps illegally overall. And, I’m very proud of the job that this group of young people, generally young people, but very smart people, they’re doing. They’re doing it at my insistence. It would be a lot easier not to do it, but we have to, take some of these things apart to find the corruption. We found tremendous corruption.
Watch above via The White House.
