Kevin O'Leary: The government drips with fat. Let Elon do his thing – there's nobody like him.

“I'm okay with [Elon going through Washington with a Hoover]. I think the American people are okay with it. Everybody knows the dirty little secret about government. It drips with fat. No one's ever done an exercise like this.

I thought he'd get a lot more pushback from Congress, and he's not. He's going in there with a spatula, and he's scraping out billions of dollars, and people are okay with it. After all, it's taxpayers' money. Why not do this?

If you sit around your kitchen table, you've got to have a budget every year. Why can't we apply the same kind of philosophy to government?

That's why he's getting a lot of latitude and a lot of slack, even though he's a controversial guy. But look at the executional skills he has. There's nobody like him. Let him do his thing.”

Fox News, February 3, 2025