Office of Government Efficiency (Doge’s) Elon Musk said on Thursday in Fox News that the group discovered that the federal government spent about $1 billion on a survey that cost thousands of dollars.

After President Donald Trump took office in January, his administration pushed Musk and Doge to procure combs through government spending and identify potential cuts to save taxpayers’ dollars. In a “special report with Bret Baier,” the Fox News host sat down with Musk and his Doge team and asked the billionaire what was the most “surprising thing” he’d ever witnessed in the process. (Related: Red Stateman charged with slamming four-wheeled vehicle against Tesla in a rebel rampage)

“A huge amount of waste and fraud from the government,” Musk said. “It’s amazing. It’s amazing. We regularly run into billions of dollars or more of a waste.

“For example, a simple investigation that was literally [a] 10 Question Survey. You can do that with Surveymonkey, [which] It costs about $10,000. The government was being charged almost $1 billion for that,” Musk added.

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Baier can be seen interrupting Musk when he sounds surprised and later asking, “Is it just for an investigation?”

Musk responded and said the investigation was essentially pointless because there was no “feedback loop.”

“Billion dollars for a quick online survey – ‘Do you like national parks?’ and there seemed to be no feedback loop on what’s going to happen in that survey,” Musk said. “So there’s none of the investigation. That was insane.”

Democrats began to escalate the position of Musk and Kuzi in the Trump administration after the billionaire announced in the X debate that he and the president had agreed to promote the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Musk warned that the agency wasted billions of taxpayer dollars.

Some programs funded through USAID not only tried to advance the agenda of radical left around the world, but also had high risk of landing in the hands of the Taliban and supporting organizations linked to the Virology Institute in Uhan.

Baier tells Musk that he and Doge have technically spent 130 days as “special government officials” and asks if they believe they can complete their work in the assigned time frame.

“I think we’ve accomplished most of the work that was needed to reduce the deficit by $1 trillion in that time,” Musk said.

“We’re reducing waste and fraud in real time, so that’s why every day, our goal is to reduce waste and fraud by $4 billion each day, seven days a year. So far, we’ve been successful.”

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