WASHINGTON 

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is considering “putting back” certain cuts made under an initiative led by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

“There were some things where, when I heard about them, I put them back. There are things that I'm considering right now putting back, but overall, we've saved hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said during an interview with ABC News when asked if the Elon Musk-led department went "too far, too fast, too reckless."

The president defended the initiative’s overall results, citing significant savings.

“Look, we saved $150 billion — billion,” he said. “That’s a lot of money. There’s also a lot of things right now under investigation, which is going to increase that amount by a lot. That’s a tremendous amount of money.”

“We also found tremendous waste, fraud and abuse,” Trump said. “As you know, we found a lot of fraud. There was a lot of fraud — fraudulent things were taking place, and we ended that.”