Washington, Feb. 10 -- U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that he would instruct Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to find "hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse" across Washington.
"I'm gonna tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education ... Then I'm gonna go to the military. Let's check the military," Trump said in a Super Bowl interview with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier.
"We're gonna find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse," Trump said.
Earlier on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Fox News he "welcomes" DOGE's scrutiny of military spending.
"When we spend dollar...