REPORT: President Trump Directs DOGE to Audit the PENTAGON! (Hegseth Responds With Huge Goal)

President Trump has laid out plans for the Department of Government Efficiency to comprehensively audit the Pentagon.

He was asked about the Pentagon’s budget by a reporter during a joint press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister.

Most executives put under the spotlight with a foreign dignitary in the room would have deflected, or given some non-comital softball response.

Not only did he not deflect, but President Trump gave a solid commitment for a “comprehensive” audit.

And Pete Hegseth, in keeping with President Trump’s lead, raised the bar high from the Pentagon’s side — committing to a “clean audit” within four years, at most.

🚨 President Donald Trump directed Elon Musk to audit the Pentagon. pic.twitter.com/mz8F5AisBS

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 7, 2025

Like many of you, my mind immediately went back to that grainy footage of Rumsfeld explaining that the Pentagon couldn’t account for $2.3 Trillion the day before 9/11.

It hasn’t passed a single audit since such things became mandatory.

Oh boy… 👀

President Trump has Instructed Elon Musk and DOGE to audit the Pentagon 😱

My mind went immediately to Donald Rumsfeld announcing they Cannot Account for over $2.3 Trillion Dollars, one day before 9/11.

• The Pentagon has not passed any of its audits since they… pic.twitter.com/dD8kepICFm

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) February 7, 2025

The most recent Pentagon audit exposed 50% of its’ full budget unaccounted for.

That’s a $1.9 trillion dollar question mark.

If USAID had skeletons in the closet, I can only imagine how many dark secrets are waiting to be exposed from the Pentagon books.

President Trump touted the job that Elon and his DOGE team are doing, and gave a little insight into how their relationship works — President Trump giving big picture direction, and DOGE responding — according to a report by the New York Post:

President Trump said Friday that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative will look at the Defense Department’s massive budget after making significant cuts at other federal agencies — most notably the US Agency for International Development (USAID) — while charging that critics of the effort “don’t love our country.”

“Pentagon, Education, just about everything. We’re going to go through everything,” Trump said at a joint White House press conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

“It was so bad, with what we just went through — with this horrible situation we just went through, and I guess 97% of the people have been dismissed,” Trump said, referring to massive headcount reductions at USAID that were due to take effect at 11:59 p.m. Friday.

“It was very, very unfortunate. You’re not going to find anything like that, but you’re going to find a lot. And I’ve instructed him to go check out Education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military. And you know, sadly, you’ll find some things that are pretty bad,” the president went on.

The Pentagon has the largest amount of federal discretionary spending — and an infamous history of overpayments, such as spending $10,000 on toilet seat covers for Air Force cargo planes, an outlay which was ended in 2018 after it became public.

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“Elon is doing a great job. He’s finding tremendous fraud and corruption and waste,” the president said before offering new insights into how Musk’s roving and murky cost-cutting initiative is working.

“I’ll tell him to go here or there and he does it,” Trump explained. “He’s got a very capable group of people.

Here’s the video of the press conference when President Trump is asked about the Pentagon specifically:

🚨 #BREAKING: Trump announces DOGE will start digging very deeply into the Pentagon and Department of Education

“We're talking about TRILLIONS of dollars. Trillions of dollars being absolutely wasted and perhaps illegally.”

And people will be PROSECUTED!pic.twitter.com/rTiq6J1i9U

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 7, 2025

Did he say… “people will be prosecuted”?

Because it sounded like he said “people will be prosecuted”.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth didn’t waste any time before getting in line with the President’s stated plan, committing to a high and lofty goal.

Speaking to a town hall discussion forum with Pentagon staffers, Hegseth outlined his plan to pass a ‘clean audit’ in no more than 4 years, according to a report in The Hill:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday committed to getting the Pentagon to pass a clean audit within four years after the Defense Department failed several in a row.

During a town hall with defense staffers, Hegseth said that he will ensure the Pentagon “at a bare minimum” passes a clean audit by the end of the current administration.

“The American taxpayers deserve that,” he continued. “They deserve to know where their $850 billion dollars go, how it’s spent, and make sure it’s spent wisely.”

The Pentagon failed its seventh audit in November, though officials claimed at the time they made strides toward the goal of a clean audit in 2028. Around half of the agencies passed and half failed in the audit.

The Pentagon has not passed a clean audit since it became legally obligated to in 2018, even as the budget has soared and is approaching a trillion dollars.

That’s no small feat, simply considering the sheer size of all defense spending.

But on top of that, you have to factor in the human element which will certainly be at odds with the fact-finding mission of DOGE, and would prefer instead to keep certain spending practices concealed.

This could prove the greatest test yet for how DOGE handles itself when directly opposed by the Deep State.

Here’s a video of Hegseth attempting to re-introduce the idea of an audit to the military staffers, who have historically been resistant to financial audits.

WAIT UNTIL DOGE GOES TO WORK ON THE DEFENSE BUDGET.

Pete Hegseth — We will audit the Pentagon.pic.twitter.com/m4o8SwDmd6

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 7, 2025

“We are going to focus heavily to ensure that at a bare minimum, by the end of four years, the Pentagon passes a clean audit.”

“I believe we are accountable for every dollar we spend and every dollar of waste we find, or redundancy is a dollar we can invest somewhere else.”

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Let us not forget that Pete Hegseth has been talking about a comprehensive audit of the Pentagon during his confirmation hearings, and even before that.

As one X user pointed out, this is one of the reasons the Deep State and the Swamp both dislike him — because he is fully onboard with exposing the facts of military spending.

That means ending the concealed profiteering of the military industrial complex.

This is the real reason the Swamp dislikes Hegseth.
He will demand a Pentagon audit of that will essentially destroy much of the Military Industrial Complex’s profiteering. pic.twitter.com/U69VrRV6a5

— Still🏝️Roaming (@roaming_rn) January 14, 2025

The Pentagon has failed 7 consecutive audits.

Yes — the United States has the best military.  But we also likely have the most wasteful military spending of any nation on the planet.

That means that as good as our military is, it could be better simply by keeping a better responsible accounting of the resources at its disposal.

It is that knowledge that makes the Pentagon audit more than just a political sticking point during an election year.

In a time of increasing global tensions and likely global conflict, responsible military spending becomes something of a national security issue.

With President Trump as Commander in Chief and Pete Hegseth as SecDev, we may never be better positioned than we are right now to get out military spending sorted out, and get a handle on exactly what needs to change.

There remains but one question — will the Deep State push back?

I would be shocked if DOGE is allowed to move forward, unblocked and unencumbered in its pursuit of wasteful spending at the hands of the Pentagon.