<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> schooled a reporter in the Oval Office on Tuesday night who pressed him on the issues of being transparent and accountable to the American people.</p>
<p>The reporter noted that the White House said that Musk would identify any potential conflicts of interest that he may have while leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).</p>
<p>&#8220;Does that mean that you are, in effect, policing yourself?&#8221; the reporter asked. &#8220;What are the checks and balances that are in place to ensure that there is accountability and transparency?&#8221;</p>
<p>Musk responded: &#8220;Well, we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible. In fact, our actions, we post our actions to the DOGE handle on X and to the DOGE website. So, all of our actions are maximally transparent. In fact, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s been, I don&#8217;t know of a case that where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And the kind of things we&#8217;re doing are, I think, are very, very simple and basic,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;These are not individual judgment decisions. These are about simply having sensible checks and balances in the system itself to ensure that taxpayer money is spent well. So it&#8217;s got nothing to do with like, say a contract for some company of mine at all.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked about the billions of dollars his companies have received for federal contracts, Musk said that all of DOGE&#8217;s actions &#8220;are fully public.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So if you see anything, you say, like, &#8216;Wait a second, hey Elon, that doesn&#8217;t, that seems like maybe there&#8217;s a conflict there.&#8217; It&#8217;s not like people are going to be shy about saying that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;ll say it immediately.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Transparency is what builds trust, not simply somebody asserting trust,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So not somebody saying they&#8217;re trustworthy, but transparency, so you can see everything that&#8217;s going on, and you can see, am I doing something that benefits one of my companies or not? It&#8217;s totally obvious.&#8221;</p>
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