During a White House cabinet meeting on Monday, President Trump praised the work of Elon Musk and Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum for finding 'fraudulent' government contracts.
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00:00schedule on that and
00:02To me something that was just terrible is the contracts that we're finding the fraudulent
00:08contracts that we're finding where
00:10Millions and millions of dollars and even billions of dollars in some cases were given out and well
00:15I think we'll start with that. I'd like to start with Doug Burgum
00:21Secretary of the Interior he told us about a couple of contracts that we have now found
00:27When he got there they saw this with Chris and everybody and they couldn't believe it Doug
00:32Could you just feel it what you told us a little while ago?
00:34No, happy to Mr. President the there's a federal consulting group, which was a group inside of interior
00:41But it was managing contracts from many different agencies that flowed through here. One of those contracts
00:47was for to do surveys of
00:50individuals
00:51830 million dollars for surveys and so part of the question was hey
00:56could we actually see the surveys and then the surveys came back and it was a survey was like eight and a half by
01:02Eleven sheet of paper with ten questions that anyone's, you know
01:06Child and junior high could have put together or AI could have done for free
01:10830 million dollars. So that's one one that we've stopped
01:14And and that contract was going out after you were inaugurated, sir. So it was jumping a fraud. Yeah, it's a fraud
01:21But we've had many fraudulent contracts that were caught by the work that Elon and his people are doing and working with our people
01:30It's been brought to light