President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has estimated that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers over $150 billion in 2023 alone while Americans still struggle in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, a contrast that Representative Aaron Bean (R-FL) condemned in a recent appearance on Fox News's Ingraham Angle, saying, "everything is out of control because of the mess that the Biden Administration is leaving us in."
"It is a total disgrace. And best wishes to President Trump. I just listened to [Trump advisor] Stephen Miller saying they are using all types of resources to tell Mexico to stop this. We have got to end it. It has taken a toll, not only financially but physically. Our schools, our healthcare, everything is out of control because of the mess that the Biden Administration is leaving us in," Rep. Bean began.
Host Laura Ingraham asked where Congress and DOGE under Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would start, to which Rep. Bean said, "There is great excitement they are coming. Speaker Johnson is hosting a little roundtable session this Thursday as both Elon and Vivek are both coming; we will be there to see where do we need to begin [and] what we can do to assist them. I think maybe an easy layup would just say to federal workers, 'How about getting back to your offices? How about going back to work?' Many of them are still working from home right now."
The Florida Congressman also agreed that the Pentagon needs serious reform: "You cannot have seven failed audits as they just did, $2.5 trillion that they cannot account for. So we want a very strong military, but we want money going towards making it a strong military and not waste, fraud, and abuse, which the Pentagon cannot account for right now."
Ingraham then asked Bean if he believed more Democrats would come onboard the DOGE Caucus.
"Everybody should be on board with waste, fraud, and abuse and attacking it. Jared Moskowitz, Representative from Florida, is our first Democratic member of the DOGE Caucus, so we are making progress. [It is] still a long way to go, but so much work to do. There is room for everybody on this caucus, on this team, to bring us back to financial solvency," Bean concluded.
