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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) weighed in on the Pentagon’s embarrassing accounting, admitting that tech billionaire Elon Musk “is right.”

The former presidential candidate left many wondering if hell had frozen over as he appeared to be on the same page as the man set to co-lead President-elect Donald Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

“Elon Musk is right,” Sanders began a post on Sunday on X.

“The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions,” he added.

As reported in November, Undersecretary of Defense Michael McCord, comptroller and chief financial officer for the Pentagon, detailed how the Defense Department couldn’t account for how a budget in excess of $800 billion had been spent.

“Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud,” Sanders continued his post. “That must change.”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) criticized the defense budget’s “waste, fraud and abuse” during a CNN interview, adding that the Pentagon “has failed the last six or seven audits.”

The California Democrat suggested his colleagues could work with Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the incoming DOGE to cut the defense budget.

“When it comes to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse and opening the 5 primes to more competition, there are Democrats on [the House Armed Services Committee] who will work with @elonmusk and @DOGE,” Khanna wrote in a post that included a clip of his interview.

“Cool!” Musk responded to the post.

Back in September, Musk revealed, “I really am with Bernie on this one,” in response to the senator’s post saying, “Elon Musk is right about solving obesity.”

Though he noted that Musk is “not one of my great political allies,” Sanders went on to quote the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s remarks that solving obesity reduces the risk of diseases.

Nevertheless, Sanders’ latest alignment with Musk raised plenty of eyebrows and sparked comments on X including from former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz who wrote, “Welcome home, Bernie.”

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