Kevin O’Leary, investor and star of TV’s Shark Tank, says DOGE has not done nearly enough budget cutting in Washington and is urging Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE to trim even more.
O’Leary appeared as a panelist on CNN on Monday, and when the topic turned to the cost cutting in which Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been engaged, O’Leary said that, so far, it has not gone far enough.
“I think the issue is they’re not whacking enough,” the investor exclaimed. “In private equity, when you’ve got a bankrupt company and you go in there, you cut 20 percent more than your initial read… Always cut deeper, harder when there’s fat and waste.”
O’Leary later compared the federal budget to a “big fat chicken.”
“These agencies are like big fat chickens dripping over…
