President Donald Trump promised on Friday that the major spending cuts requested by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be codified after his “Big, Beautiful Bill” passes Congress.

Trump addressed DOGE during a press conference with the mastermind behind the waste-cutting effort, Elon Musk, who is taking a step back from his role in the White House to focus on his companies. The “Big, Beautiful Bill,” pushed by Trump and passed by the House, is currently in the hands of the Senate, where it faces scrutiny from some Republicans over its lack of cuts to federal spending.

“We are totally committed to making the DOGE cuts permanent and stopping much more of the waste in the months to come,” Trump said. “We want to get our great ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ finished and done. After that, we’re going to be — we put some of this into the bill, but most of it is going to come later. We’re going to have it [codified] by Congress.”

The president promised that the DOGE cuts will result in “hundreds of billions of dollars” in savings.

Earlier this week, Musk said he was “disappointed” by the “massive” bill passed by the House, which he said “increases the budget deficit” and “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”

“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful,” Musk said in an interview with CBS News, “but I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.”

Musk wasn’t alone in his criticism of the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” In the House, Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio voted against the legislation, citing the federal deficit. Similarly, Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Mike Lee (R-UT), among others, have raised concerns about the legislation.

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“Everybody likes a tax cut, but when you’re $37 trillion in debt on the path to over $60 trillion in debt, right when the Social Security trust fund is running out, somebody’s got to be the dad that says, ‘I know everybody wants to go to Disney World, but we just can’t afford it,’” Johnson said.

Sen. Lee told conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, “The Big, Beautiful Bill is big [but] isn’t yet as beautiful as it needs to be, but there’s still time to fix it. And the Senate version is going to be more aggressive.”

“So we got to address the spending crisis to a greater degree than this bill does,” Lee added.

Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, said earlier this week that the “Big, Beautiful Bill” was not the right package to cram through DOGE cuts.

“DOGE cuts are to discretionary spending. (Eg the federal bureaucracy). Under senate budget rules, you cannot cut discretionary spending (only mandatory) in a reconciliation bill,” Miller wrote. “So DOGE cuts would have to be done through what is known as a rescissions package or an appropriations bill.”

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump weighed in Friday on whether former First Lady Jill Biden should testify about her role in the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline.

The president discussed the matter as he took questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon during a press conference with Elon Musk, who is closing out his time with the administration. The presser comes amidst heavy scrutiny of the coverup of Biden’s mental decline, particularly in light of a new book on how the White House sought to hide the president’s condition from the public.

Fox News’ Peter Doocey questioned the president about the topic, asking Trump: “Do you think that Dr. Jill Biden should also have to come in and testify about what she did or didn’t do?”

Trump responded, “Well, I hate the concept of it.”

“It’s the wife of a man who is going through a lot of problems, and everybody that dealt with him understood that,” Trump reflected. “And I guess it came out during the debate loud and clear, that was the biggest signal of all … they have to do what is right. There was a lot of dishonesty in the election as you know, of 2020, that’s been now caught. People understand it was a rigged election.”

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“And when you go further out, when you see the auto pen, I think the auto pen is going to become one of the great scandals of all time,” Trump added. “Because you have somebody operating it, or a number of people operating it … cause I knew Joe Biden. Joe Biden wasn’t in favor of opening up borders and letting 21 million people in, from prisons and mental institutions and gang members, he wasn’t into that at all.”

The president questioned: “Who signed these orders, proclamations, and all of these different things that he signed, that were so bad for our country?”

The question came after Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky suggested Wednesday that both Joe and Jill Biden could be subpoenaed to testify about Biden’s use of the autopen to sign official documents. He also suggested that the president’s former Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, could receive a subpoenas.

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“Wherever the trail leads is where we’re going to bring them in,” Comer told Sean Hanity on Fox News. “And look, I would love to ask Joe Biden a lot of questions, but right now, we’re starting with the staffers who are operating the autopen.”

On Thursday at the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Jill Biden should “certainly” speak openly about her husband’s infirmities.

“I think, frankly, the former first lady should certainly speak up about what she saw in regards to her husband and when she saw it and what she knew,” Leavitt said, adding, “because I think anybody looking again at the videos and photo evidence of Joe Biden with your own eyes and a little bit of common sense can see this was a clear cover-up. Jill Biden was certainly complicit in that cover-up.”

“There’s documentation, video evidence of her clearly shielding her husband away from the cameras. They were just on ‘The View’ last week. She was saying everything is fine,” Leavitt told reporters. “She’s still lying to the American people. She still thinks the American public are so stupid that they’re going to believe her lies, and, frankly, it’s insulting and she needs to answer for it.”