Elon Musk’s four-year-old son X Æ A-Xii was spotted at the Senate Thursday sitting atop his father’s shoulders as Elon was in the Senate early today to meet with Senate and House Republicans over the functioning of his new Department of Government Efficiency. Ahead of the meeting, Elon Musk first met with incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune. “I think we just need to make sure we spend the public’s money well,” Elon Musk said as he came out of the meeting holding the hand of his four-year-old.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency has a mandate to cut the expenditure of the administration by July 4, 2026. Elon Musk said he wants to cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget which now is around $6 trillion a year. Musk and Ramaswamy have plans to fire federal staff who do not come to the office. They also plan to send some federal departments outside Washington, and some agencies under the axe.
Musk is expected to speak to members of the Senate DOGE caucus, which is headed by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), later in the day.
Ernst said her group has already provided Musk and DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy “a lot of materials.”
Ernst said the Trump administration will be able to “execute” spending reductions through “executive orders” and Congress would “pick up the legislative end of it.”
Fox News reported that the Senators were very impressed with Elon and Vivek’s plans. “I’m very impressed with what Elon and Vivek want to accomplish,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital after leaving the DOGE Caucus meeting. “I can’t talk about what they are going to be proposing, but I’ve known them for a long time, and I think they’re going to do a great job.”
“It showed a lot of us are on the same page,” Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., said of Thursday’s chat. “We need to make government serve people again.”
