"Transparency is what builds trust."
"At a high level, you say what is the goal of DOGE, and I think a significant part of the presidency is to restore democracy."
"It's incredibly important that we close that feedback loop, fix that feedback loop, and ensure that the public's elected representatives—the president, the House, and the Senate—decide what happens, a..."
"We have this unelected, unconstitutional branch of government, which is the bureaucracy, that in a lot of ways currently has more power than any elected representative."
"The goal of DOGE is to be as transparent as possible."
"We've got a $2 trillion deficit, and if we don't do something about it, the country is going bankrupt."
"We can cut the budget deficit in half from $2 trillion to $1 trillion and with deregulation, because there are a lot of regulations that don't serve the public good."
"Imagine going down the grocery aisle and the prices from one year to the next are the same, and their mortgage and all their debt payments dropped."
"You can see whether I'm doing something that's benefitting one of my companies or not. It's totally obvious."
"We've got a $2 trillion deficit and if this, if we don't do something about this deficit, the country is going bankrupt."
"Democracy. This may seem like — well, are we in a democracy?"
"Scam Altman."