Musk insisted there was no problem with the fact that he was policing himself. And went on to insist DOGE was being transparent in every possible way.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) went after President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk in the first Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee hearing Wednesday, saying lawmakers “can’t just sit here today and pretend like everything is normal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will welcome Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to address redundancies and waste in the Department of Defense—a comment that comes as controversy surrounds Musk’s powerful agency and questions of what it can and cannot do in different departments.