Shortly after Trump created DOGE, Musk turned his eye to the U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, has publicly said he agrees with Musk when in comes to the Pentagon's budget. "Elon Musk is right," Sanders wrote on X. "The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It's lost track of billions.