CNN Trots Out Bill Nye To Make Claim Up Out Of Thin Air Against Musk

CNN allowed former television show host Bill Nye to claim that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk wanted to replace the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather satellites with Starlink Monday.

Roughly 880 staffers at NOAA, including many who were on probationary status, were laid off Thursday, CBS News reported, with some of the laid-off employees holding a protest outside the agency’s headquarters. Nye claimed Musk found a “vulnerable part” in the federal government to seize public assets for himself, but never offered evidence. (RELATED: ‘That Is A Lot Of Fraud’: Karoline Leavitt Sniffs Out NBC News Reporter’s Attempt To Trip Her Up Over DOGE Cuts)

“Elon Musk and his guys were revving up — and you know, I’m an engineer, we love engineering, I used to work on failure effects and modes analysis for airplanes. So these guys found what they thought was the vulnerable part of the U.S. government, which is this digital services office. So they got in there and changed all the passwords and messed everything up as fast as they could,” Nye told “CNN News Central” host Kate Bolduan in a diatribe lasting over two and a half minutes. “And then along that line, people — the system was not set up for it. But understand what’s going on, by firing people at NOAA. NOAA has a lot of satellites, and that’s how these weather predictions are made. You know, when I was young, when I was a kid, if a hurricane path was predicted within 60, 70 nautical miles, everybody would, that was amazing. Well, now it’s within 5 or 6 nautical miles because of the efficacy or the quality of the software and the satellites that do the weather analysis and the people who work on it.”

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“Well, Mr. Musk has this company Starlink, and he’s proposing that NOAA be supplanted by a private company,” Nye continued. “And just to the young guys that have gone to work on this, that have gone into the digital services office to destroy or mess up our electronic systems, keep in mind that this is fundamental corruption. This is — it’s just corruption, when you’re trying to monopolize a government service.”

Starlink is a company that provides satellite-based internet services, and does not provide weather tracking services, according to its webpage.

President Donald Trump established DOGE in a Jan. 20 executive order, and tasked the department with cutting federal waste and reducing the bureaucracy within agencies. The department has conducted mass-layoffs and has claimed to have identified roughly $105 billion in savings, according to its website. The executive actions to reduce the size and scope of the federal government have been challenged in court, with a federal judge recently blocking a memo sent to federal agencies instructing them to dismiss thousands of probationary workers.

“And say what you will about Woodrow Wilson back in the old days. He was a big anti-monopoly guy. This is trying to undo the robber barons. And so if you read the book about Elon Musk and so on, he — there’s a whole section on his unrealistic goal setting,” Nye claimed. “So he found this weak part, this weakness in the U.S. government, exploited it as fast as he could, and now for — it’s one thing’s leading to another, and he’s trying to undo a public service and supplant it with one of his. And this is just good old corruption.” (RELATED: Former Federal Prosecutor Tells Harris Faulkner Why He Predicts DOGE Will Beat Lawfare)

“So sooner or later, I believe the court system will catch up with these guys,” Nye continued. “And so it’s just going to be — it’s just — talk about efficiency, destroying a system that was working and then trying to replace it later is inefficient.”

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