Speaker Johnson: Musk ‘Cracked The Code’ To Defeating ‘Deep State’
Charlie Kirk Staff
02/17/2025

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has “cracked the code” on dismantling the “deep state” through the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
In an interview on Life, Liberty & Levin that aired Saturday night, Johnson told host Mark Levin that he met with Musk for an hour last week at the DOGE leader’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The speaker noted that Musk has been working out of the old Secretary of War Suite and “we laughed about how appropriate that is because he’s declared war on the deep state and the bureaucracy.”
“You have Democrats now out having rallies to stop him. What is he doing? He’s identifying and allowing us to cut out fraud, waste, and abuse. How could they be against that? It’s irrational. It’s going to work against them,” Johnson added.
Later in the interview, Levin managed to get Johnson to agree that Democrats are being hypocritical for opposing Musk’s efforts to reform the government through DOGE while simultaneously embracing billionaire George Soros, whose wealth has been used to influence policy.
Johnson also highlighted how Musk is aiding Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duty to hold the Executive Branch accountable by introducing a level of transparency that has been absent in recent decades.
“The oversight job has been hindered because the deep state and the bureaucracy has not turned over the data. They wouldn’t give us the information we were seeking. We didn’t know all this because it was hidden,” Johnson said.
“Now Elon has cracked the code. He is on the inside of the belly of the beast, Mark,” the speaker added. “And he is unveiling and revealing all these things that we knew intuitively were happening but we didn’t have the evidence.”
“This is a game changer. It is truly revolutionary and we’re going to restore ultimately through this process the federal government to the original intent of the Founders,” Johnson continued.
“And that’s what has the Big Government socialist liberals and Democrat Party apoplectic because they’re afraid of what the final result of this is going to be and it’s very exciting for the people.”