Summary
The All-In hosts interview Antonio Gracias live in Miami about his eight weeks working with DOGE. He describes the federal government as far more complex than Twitter/X was, argues roughly 15 percent of spending could be cut without touching core entitlements, and details hand-sampled checks of DHS data against state voter rolls that found non-citizens who registered and voted. He also makes a pro-immigration economic argument and proposes Real ID plus the federal SAVE database as the fix for voter-roll integrity. The conversation is political and operational and contains no securities, sectors or assets presented as investment ideas.
- Antonio Gracias describes eight weeks inside DOGE mapping government systems end to end.
- He claims about 15 percent of federal spending, roughly a trillion dollars, is cuttable without touching core entitlements.
- He says cuts mainly hit NGOs and beltway consultants, and that most exits were voluntary severance packages.
- Transparent published metrics, not pay, are presented as the key civil-service incentive.
- Hand sampling of DHS data against voter rolls produced three arrests and one indictment for non-citizen voting.
- Real ID plus the federal SAVE citizenship database, now made free to states, is proposed as the fix.
- Gracias backs both high-skilled and unskilled legal immigration, citing roughly 7 million US job openings.
- Closing partner reads mention OKX, Circle and USDC, Polymarket, Solana, BVNK and Google Cloud, with no investment views.