Actor and comedian Jon Lovitz supports billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in their efforts to reduce “tremendous” government waste.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, the stand-up comic and former Saturday Night Live cast member defended the Trump administration’s push to rein in federal spending, which he described as “astronomical.”

Lovitz called the initiative “a good thing” and praised the efforts to make government more efficient.

“Here’s the money coming in and here’s the money going out. And the money going out is astronomical and way above what’s coming in — like crazy. And if everyone would look at this — if you haven’t seen it, you’d be shocked,” he said.

“There’s tremendous waste and they’re finding it,” Lovitz said about DOGE and President Donald Trump. “And I think that’s a good thing.”

Lovitz, a lifelong Democratic voter until the party’s stance on Israel led him to reconsider his affiliation, has once again broken with liberal orthodoxy by supporting government spending cuts. Democratic lawmakers have opposed Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) since its creation last month, when Trump established the agency via executive order to “maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”

In recent weeks, many Democrats have staged widely mocked public protests on Capitol Hill, claiming that Musk’s role in overseeing federal spending cuts violates the U.S. Constitution. Since its formation, DOGE has targeted several federal agencies for wasteful spending, including USAID, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Treasury, the IRS, and others.

DOGE revealed that $1.9 billion in HUD money had been recovered as of Friday, saying the funds were misplaced during the Biden administration and were “earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed.” 

Prompted by DOGE’s complaints about the Department of Education’s spending, fiscal watchdog group OpenTheBooks recently revealed that the department’s spending has grown by 749% since 2000, despite staff levels decreasing in that same timeframe, Fox Business reported.

During a recent interview alongside Trump with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Musk slammed Democratic Party protesters.

“They wouldn’t be complaining so much if we weren’t doing something useful… What we’re really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president. And what we’re finding is that there’s an unelected bureaucracy — speaking of unelected, there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet,” he said.