As the House GOP works on its spending package and the government budget, it will also be working to “codify” the efforts of Elon Musk’s DOGE at rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse of American taxpayer dollars, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

“We’re going to need a few more weeks, maybe a month or more, to qualify and quantify and then codify what Elon Musk and the DOGE effort is all about, and that is eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in the government,” Johnson told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

“He genuinely believes they may be able to find as much as $1 trillion, and that is going to make a big difference, obviously, in the budgeting for the federal government and the appropriations process going forward.”

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