'It's nonsense!' Morning Joe uses bed bug analogy as he flips out on Elon Musk

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough pummeled Elon Musk's claims about the federal budget and the sweeping cuts imposed by his Department of Government Efficiency.

Donald Trump's billionaire benefactor and his DOGE workforce have gained access to Social Security databases and other government financial systems, where they claim to have found widespread evidence of fraud.

But the "Morning Joe" host knocked down those claims as false.

"Independents and Democrats alike need to focus on that, and this whole idea, by the way, it's nonsense when you're hearing we have to do this to save money because we have to balance the budget," Scarborough said.

"There's a $36 trillion debt. I can tell you 80 percent of that, 85 percent of that does not come from anything that DOGE is touching. That 80 [percent], 85 percent comes from defense spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, interest on the debt, all that makes up 80 [percent], 85 percent. Government is about all these things we're talking about takes about 10 percent, maybe 12 percent of the budget, and then you're cutting around the edges here and, you're doing things, again, not in a meaningful, thoughtful way, but in a way where you just going in and again, just ripping things away.

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"This would be like a hotel getting bedbugs on the 11th floor and deciding they were going to burn down the hotel instead of changing the sheets and taking out the beds on the 11th floor and changing them."

"There's a smart way to do this," Scarborough added. "It needs to be done, the federal government needs to be more efficient. Its systems need to be updated to the 21st Century, the 21st-Century standards, and we've said it here for years now. There's some computers from the 1980s at the Pentagon, so we need this updating.

"It needs to be done, though in a meaningful, thoughtful way that doesn't make Americans less safe and everybody sitting here talking about what the Democrats need to do, Democrats need to fight to protect Americans' safety, to keep them safe."

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