Musk Corrects Hannity on DOGE Employees’ Salaries: ‘Well, Actually…’

Elon Musk corrected Fox’s Sean Hannity during a joint interview with President Donald Trump when he informed him some DOGE staffers are being compensated for their time.

During the interview, which aired Tuesday but was filmed last week, the Fox News host was under the impression slashing government agencies and jobs with Musk was pro bono work.

Musk explained that was not the case as some of his software engineers were being paid as federal employees – although he said they were leaving cash on the table by working for him:

HANNITY: This is where we are as a society, and I hate to do this to you but I’m going to do it anyway. You’re doing all of these things – your DOGE. Nobody at DOGE gets paid a penny, correct?

MUSK: Well, actually, some people are federal employees.

HANNITY: Some are. Okay, they’re helping –

MUSK: But I think it’s fair to say that the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year, and instead of earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.

HANNITY: Okay.

TRUMP: And they’re very committed people.

HANNITY: So you’re you’re committed to helping the blind see, people with spinal cord injuries recover. You’re committed to getting to Mars. You’re committed to rescue – you’re going to help rescue next month, two astronauts that I think were abandoned. They dispute that in an interview.

MUSK: At the president’s request or instruction, we are accelerating the return of the astronauts, which was postponed kind of to a ridiculous degree.

TRUMP: They got left in space.

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