Kevin O’Leary says Elon Musk’s DOGE could be remembered as ‘Trump’s biggest achievement.’ Here’s why

Jing Pan

Fri, Mar 7, 2025, 4:03 AM 6 min read

“Shark Tank” prima Kevin O’Leary has ne'er been 1 to mince words, and his latest instrumentality connected Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is nary exception.

In a recent interrogation with Fox Business, O’Leary praised DOGE’s efforts to exposure authorities waste, calling it “the champion barbecue” he’s seen.

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“This is wildly fashionable due to the fact that we person a unsocial situation. You've got Elon Musk with his ain planetary broadcast network. He tin people thing helium wants astatine immoderate time,” O’Leary said. “He goes into these agencies — 48 hours later, puts a database of brainsick worldly similar you conscionable detailed.”

Musk, who owns societal media level X, has been vocal astir DOGE’s findings, sharing reports connected authorities spending that immoderate critics telephone excessive.

Some of the expenses DOGE flagged include: $14 cardinal successful payer wealth for “social cohesion” programs successful Mali, $40 cardinal for Cambodian women’s empowerment, $10 cardinal for “Mozambique voluntary aesculapian antheral circumcision” and $14 cardinal for “improving nationalist procurement” successful Serbia.

For O’Leary, these revelations rise superior questions.

“People spot it each done the U.S. and astir the satellite and say, ‘This is nuts,’” helium said. “And it conscionable fuels — what other is retired there?”

O’Leary besides pointed retired that Musk’s quality to spearhead DOGE’s initiatives wouldn’t beryllium imaginable without “the enforcement down him,” referring to President Donald Trump. In the statement of his video, O’Leary adjacent stated: “DOGE COULD BE REMEMBERED AS TRUMP’S BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT.”

And according to him, there’s inactive plentifulness much to uncover.

“There's a batch of hostility going connected present with the absorption of these programs, and peculiarly erstwhile we commencement talking with the FAA and the Pentagon,” O’Leary said.

“I mean, oh, baby, hold till that 1 comes out, due to the fact that that is ever going to beryllium a achromatic spread saying, ‘Well, it's for defense, and I can't archer you what it's for.’ But present there's accountability. There's truthful overmuch abdominous dripping disconnected these chickens — this is the champion barbecue I've ever seen.”

To beryllium sure, not everyone shares O’Leary’s enthusiasm. Some lawmakers are raising concerns astir the legality of DOGE’s approach.