Joe Rogan Cheers On Trump and Musk After USAID Shutdown: ‘Can’t Just Be Spending All Our F**king Tax Money On Nonsense’
Joe Rogan cheered on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk slashing government agencies and employees, arguing they’re taking a much-needed “business approach” to government.
On the Thursday episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan praised Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for the radical change they are bringing about in the federal government. Musk’s advisory group is looking to slash trillions in government spending, and they raised red flags with critics over their push to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
“We’re getting a chance to see what happens when you take a business approach to the government in the White House,” Rogan said.
USAID came under fire from Trump and others after it was revealed millions had been spent on Politico. While Trump and others erroneously suggested this was money directly from the government to a news outlet, the details actually show only $24,000 was spent on Politico PRO subscriptions, a service that tracks legislation on Capitol Hill. Trump had also claimed the agency spent $100 million on “condoms for Hamas,” a claim which was easily debunked across the media.
Trump also offered buyouts to millions of federal employees, which were paused by a federal judge shortly before the deadline for employees to accept the offer.
Rogan blasted Democrats upset with Trump and Musk slashing through government. Many Congressional Democrats have warned that Musk’s moves are illegal, as USAID was created by federal legislation and funded by Congress — meaning only a change in federal law can shutter the agency.
“The same people that say we need radical change, right? ‘We need radical change. We’ve got corruption. We need radical change.’ Okay, well, here’s your radical change!” he said.
Rogan argued:
“What’s fascinating right now is we’re getting a chance to see what happens when you take a business approach to the government in the White House. We’re seeing right now with this whole USAID thing where they’re uncovering massive amounts of corruption and waste and and just a lot of weird shady shit with NGOs and where an enormous amount of money is going, and you’re seeing someone look at this thing that is incredibly efficient, almost by design. And instead of saying like, well, this is just how it is and this is how these politicians get funded, so let’s just keep this thing going the same way it is and make some incremental changes to try to make people happy so we still get elected.
Instead of that, you’re saying a politician, a president, who’s coming in who can’t get reelected, so he’s just going ham and he’s just cleaning out everything and people are freaking out. The same people that say we need radical change. We need radical change. We’ve got corruption.
We need radical change. Okay, well, here’s your radical change. We don’t need this! But you do. The government does. They need oversight, and they haven’t had that. And because of that, you’re seeing this not just waste. You could call it waste, but it’s deeper, it’s deeper than waste, it’s corruption. And you’re seeing that that corruption get weeded out.
I am hoping that this is successful and that it yields a benefit to the American people, to the working class people, to everybody where they recognize like, hey, we can’t just be spending all our fucking tax money on nonsense. And it all should be done with a real clear understanding of getting results. If that happens and that idea spreads across the country because ideas spread and people change their minds and, you know, and sometimes it happens. One guy in the neighborhood go, you know what?
Fuck this, I’m fed up. And then I’d be like, Yeah, I’ve been kind of thinking that, too. I just didn’t want to say it. People start talking and then it’s not a scary thing to discuss and it’s right.”
Watch above via The Joe Rogan Experience.
