Kevin O’Leary on DOGE: ‘Always Cut Deeper and Harder When There’s Fat and Waste — More Cutting’

FINNEY: “Nothing to do with any AI system, by the way, which is some of what we‘ve read that they‘ve done. And I think what we‘re going to find is a number of these oops moments that could be dangerous.”
Jones: “I just think they need to read the room. I mean, there have been three major plane crashes in just, you know, less than a month. One of them was just a few blocks from the high school I went to in northeast Philadelphia. And, you know, tell that to the little boy with the metal in his head, trying to protect his sister during that plane crash. I think that not only do you have to protect the safety of Americans physically, but I think you have to protect our safety mentally. You know, we see you laying off people from the FAA. At this point, nobody at the FAA is is dispensable. I think you have to keep everybody there, at least, you know, for the for the time being, because we‘ve had these major plane crashes that you haven‘t seen in 16 years.”
SIDNER: “Kevin, the optics of this is what you’re referring to.”
O’LEARY: “I think the issue is they‘re not whacking enough. There‘s this concept in private equity when you get a bankrupt company and you go in there, you cut 20% more than your initial read, and then you find, like a pool of mercury, the organization gels back together again. Always cut deeper, harder when there‘s fat and waste. The FAA, it‘s not the people. The code is COBOL. It‘s from the 60s. It needs CapEx put into it for the technology. We upgrade it to make it safer. Fat like a chicken. All of these agencies are like big fat chickens dripping over barbecues of fat. This is the best barbecue I‘ve ever seen, but I don‘t think it‘s happening fast enough. They‘re not cutting enough. Keep slashing. Keep hacking while you have a 24-month mandate before the midterms. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. More, more cutting. Believe me, it‘s going to work out just great. Everybody should be happy about it.”
SIDNER: “Even people with the nuclear codes. Cut them too?”
O’LEARY: “Cut everything. Because if you don‘t see what they‘re doing and they can‘t show you that they‘re adding value, you whack.”