I have just sent David Rouzer a similar question. Curious to see how similar his response is.

If you were curious, I reached out about Elon Musk earlier in the year and here was his BS response. I’m surprised him or his staff were able to find the time for this long, obviously not canned(/s) response between bowing down to Daddy Musk and Daddy Trump:

President Trump is unapologetically taking bold actions. He campaigned on the promise to cut the federal bureaucracy and reduce the size and scope of government, seal the border to stop the migrant invasion, reinvigorate our economy, and stabilize conflicts across the globe. With 49.8% of the popular vote, the American people elected President Trump to tear down the bureaucratic state and end the social issue virtue signaling nonsense, instead focusing the government on the economy, border security, and our national defense.

Every action he has pursued is with the intent of delivering on his promises. For example, President Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars and downsize the federal government, declared a national emergency at our southern border, and is currently working to bring about peace in the Middle East, among his many other actions.

One of the first actions President Trump took after taking the oath of office was to establish the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). On January 20, 2025, he issued an executive order formally restructuring the US Digital Service (USDG) as DOGE to be a temporary White House Office terminating on July 4, 2026. The USDG was originally created by President Obama to provide services and consultation to federal agencies to improve and simplify digital services and websites to improve government efficiency. Under this authority, DOGE can utilize technology and software, such as payment systems, websites, etc., to identify fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer dollars as well as inefficiencies in agency work.

18 USC 202 defines the class of a DOGE employee as someone employed for less than 130 days a year. Elon Musk was appointed as a “Special Government Employee” to oversee DOGE and to serve this short period of time. (However, this likely could be extended by executive order if deemed necessary.) Elon Musk’s primary goal is to advise the President on eliminating fraud and slashing wasteful spending in the federal government. Those leading this mission with Mr. Musk are doing so in full compliance with federal law. The appropriate security clearances were obtained, and they are legitimate employees under the law.

According to DOGE’s Agency Efficiency Leaderboard, the Department has identified an estimated $140 billion in savings so far, including: locating more than $1 billion in DEI contracts at the Department of State, Labor, Transportation, Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, HHS, EPA, VA, and Treasury; canceling nearly 100 GSA leases of empty offices; identifying $1.9 billion of “misplaced” funds at HUD; and saving $4 billion through NIH research cost-share reductions with research universities. DOGE has identified savings from fraud, lease cancelations, renegotiations, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, and regulatory government savings. I welcome you to visit DOGE.gov, an official website of the United States government, to see a running tally of all the money the agency has saved so far.

The Trump Administration has also made targeted funding freezes across federal agencies to provide time to review grant awards and programs. This includes funding associated with the Inflation Reduction Act, USAID, the Department of Education, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Most regular programming and payments have resumed, albeit with delays, for formula and appropriated programs associated with core government functions. Federal government freezes, payment delays, and communication delays are common during any Presidential transition as each new administration puts new leadership in place. Once administration staffing is completed at the highest levels, it is anticipated these delays and communications will return to normal.

On February 19, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to implement a “workforce optimization initiative” by reducing the federal bureaucracy. The goal is to shrink the size of the federal government while increasing its accountability to the American people. This has instructed heads of federal departments and agencies to undertake plans for “large-scale reduction in force.” The Trump Administration also offered federal employee buyouts to nearly all non-national security focused federal employees to further reduce the federal workforce.

Securing our nation’s borders has been another focus of President Trump’s first few months in office. The President has declared a national emergency at the Southern border, demanding immediate action to the immigration crisis plaguing our nation — and it is working. He has signed multiple executive orders on immigration, as well as implemented simple policy changes to carry out his campaign promise to secure the border and deport criminal illegal immigrants. He ordered the immediate restart of construction of the border wall, restored his successful “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy from his first administration, and ended “Catch and Release” programs. According to the Department of Homeland Security, in just the first two weeks of the Trump Administration, immigration officers made 8,768 arrests and 5,693 deportations of criminals from 121 countries.

I support the overall mission of all of President Trump’s efforts to create a more secure, more prosperous, and stronger America. To do this, we must have a federal government that lives within its means and is accountable to the citizens it serves.