O’Leary is wrong. The federal government has conducted audits for decades, per federal law, and it has publicly shared the results. The Clinton-Gore administration also undertook a massive cost-cutting effort, but much of that followed congressional bipartisan approval.
Despite the backlash, O'Leary stands by his view that DOGE's cuts need to go deeper. He described government agencies as "big fat chickens" dripping over "barbecues of fat" and doubled down on his belief that no role should be safe if it doesn't demonstrate clear value.