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‘They Are Finding Things’: Scott Jennings Tells CNN Host How Trump, Musk Should ‘Make The Case’ For DOGE

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Republican strategist Scott Jennings said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump should have White House senior adviser Elon Musk testify before Congress to “make the case” for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

DOGE, which Trump established by rebranding the United States Digital Service in a Jan. 20 executive order, is conducting layoffs of federal government employees and identified at least $105 billion in savings, an average of $652.17 per taxpayer, according to its website. Jennings told “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins that DOGE was “finding things” that could swing public support in favor of the agency.

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“I’d just give him one more piece of public relations advice, which is at some point they‘ll have collected enough information and put together enough of a presentation where they could go up to a hearing, have members of Congress ask them questions about it, and really display for the American people the waste, fraud and abuse that they‘re finding and what they might want to do about it,” Jennings told Collins.

“I do think members of Congress should be brought in on this. I think this meeting is a good step,” Jennings continued. “Eventually, a public presentation, I think, would help the president and the whole Republican Party with the project of cutting government.”

DOGE’s actions to eliminate waste and fraud while reducing the size and scope of the federal government have been challenged in court, with a federal judge recently blocking a memo sent to federal agencies instructing them to dismiss thousands of probationary workers. Other courts have allowed DOGE to carry out its efforts.

“What should that look like? On Capitol Hill or…?” Collins asked, with Jennings responding by saying, “A hearing. I think we ought to do it.”

“I think that Elon and his team and the people that the president designates who have been working on this project, I think they should have no fears, because I do think they are finding things, I think the American people need to know about it,” Jennings responded. “And I think if the president is going to continue to sell a program where we’re reducing the size of the government, we’re gonna have more than enough evidence to make the political case.”

Democratic members of Congress joined protests outside the headquarters of the USAID and the Treasury Department on Feb. 4 after Musk announced plans to close down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and have since joined protests outside other government agencies DOGE is looking into, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).