doge: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/doge/ Everyone on the record about doge: 6 verbatim quotes from 3 people, November 2024 to March 2025, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:56 +0000 Howard Lutnick: Lutnick claims no one has ever audited nearly $4 trillion in entitlement spending. https://minutesof.com/q/44de30ae-cc9f-4fa0-9356-5ecc800db9ce/ https://minutesof.com/q/44de30ae-cc9f-4fa0-9356-5ecc800db9ce/ “No one's ever checked the just under $4,000,000,000,000 of entitlements. Every politician thinks what you have to do is you have to take the retirement age from 65 and make it a 70.” — Howard Lutnick, All-In Podcast Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:53 +0000 doge Brad Gerstner: Gerstner calculates proposed tariffs would 10x revenue to $500B while Doge cuts $1T spending, t https://minutesof.com/q/0611c7f4-6769-4eb4-8594-5873c287a92a/ https://minutesof.com/q/0611c7f4-6769-4eb4-8594-5873c287a92a/ “If you look at tariffs, they're likely to impose, we currently generate about $50,000,000,000 in tariff revenue. The president is targeting 500,000,000,000, so a 10x increase in tariff revenue.” — Brad Gerstner, Upfront Ventures Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:33:08 +0000 doge Brad Gerstner: Gerstner argues balancing the budget by 2029 requires reducing government spending 3% annually https://minutesof.com/q/366a2470-1dc7-4f61-9e92-d0f6de65efeb/ https://minutesof.com/q/366a2470-1dc7-4f61-9e92-d0f6de65efeb/ “Now you get there by simply reducing the size of government by about 3% a year for the next four years. Again, just still going from 5,000,000,000,000 in 2019 to 6,000,000,000,000 in 2029.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:11:58 +0000 doge Brad Gerstner: Gerstner argues federal budget can balance in four years with modest 5-5-2% spending cuts and 3 https://minutesof.com/q/3ea3a46a-13b4-47da-a103-1700b0372bf3/ https://minutesof.com/q/3ea3a46a-13b4-47da-a103-1700b0372bf3/ “So all that does is get you back to trend line from 2019 As though we increased spending 3% a year from 2019, the budget balances.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:09:14 +0000 doge Bill Gurley: Gurley says two largest US departments failed audits for three to five years running. https://minutesof.com/q/c56c4df5-bcf0-4304-929c-91ce0577aed0/ https://minutesof.com/q/c56c4df5-bcf0-4304-929c-91ce0577aed0/ “one of the things that's already come up is I think two of the largest departments in the country have failed audits for like three to five of the past years.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:09:14 +0000 doge Bill Gurley: Gurley says DOGE methodology is to expose government waste publicly, with transparency as disinfe https://minutesof.com/q/7be4417c-1baa-4556-8349-739161fb7122/ https://minutesof.com/q/7be4417c-1baa-4556-8349-739161fb7122/ “The methodology that I'm gonna assume was Elon's idea is basically to shine a flashlight on the ideocracy that exists. And, you know, transparency can be a hell of a disinfectant.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:09:14 +0000 doge