'Yes, it was BS': Morning Joe takes a victory lap as predictions come true

Elon Musk inserted himself into President Donald Trump's administration with the stated goal of cutting waste, fraud and abuse, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough took a victory lap Tuesday as his predictions about the Department of Government Efficiency largely came true.

The "Morning Joe" host predicted that Musk's cuts would fall far short of the $2 trillion in savings promised by Musk, and he gloated at new reporting that shows DOGE fell far short of those lofty goals — and had actually added another layer of bureaucracy to the federal government.

"I've got to tell you, really, it is, it's actually a scene out of a comedy, except, of course, the consequences are very real, very real, they're very significant," Scarborough said. "But again, this is what happens when you go into a government organization thinking you can wield a chainsaw and change things in two, three, four weeks.

"Again, not a great deal of cost savings. In fact, many people believe the consequences of the cuts will end up costing more than the proposed cuts themselves, the ones that are actually real. But in this case, who would believe it? DOGE creates a new layer of bureaucracy."

"These are all things that we all predicted before," Scarborough added. "When Donald Trump, you know, reportedly turns and says, was this all just BS, the saving of a trillion? Yes it was. Yes, it was BS. We told everybody it was BS."

Many of the cuts imposed by DOGE were undone by the courts, and the legal challenges cost taxpayers millions, and thousands of workers endured pain and uncertainty while those lawsuits played out, and MSNBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann said the saga would likely play a major role in next year's elections.

"I think when the whole thing is said and done, it's going to net-net out," Heilemann said. "Not only that, the savings have been have been minuscule. In fact, they're not, they're not going to be savings. They're not going to end up having cost the taxpayer a ton of money, having gone through this exercise. But the most interesting thing is the thing you said about Donald Trump. Because all that, all I'm focused on now is what happens between now and next November. There is no doubt that Elon Musk and DOGE are going to be at the center of the Democratic attempts to retake the House."

"Are Elon Musk and Donald Trump going to stay together, or are we seeing the signs of an increasingly growing split? That question, was he always just full of BS?" Heilemann added. "That's the first stage of not just the separation, but a divorce, I think, between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and when these two turn on each other, God knows what's going to happen to the politics for the Republican Party."

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