Summary
Elon Musk, co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency under Donald Trump’s advisory team, revised his claim of finding $2 trillion in federal budget cuts to a “best-case outcome” of $1 trillion.
Musk’s earlier target, dismissed as unrealistic by experts, had included the entire discretionary budget of $1.7 trillion.
While Musk and co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy plan to recommend cuts, specifics remain unclear.
Experts warn savings may require targeting mandatory programs like Medicaid, potentially causing hardships.
Anyone who actually believed they would find $2 trillion was an idiot, the rest of us knew they’d just cut the things they hate, bump the subsidies that favor them and their friends, and call it a day.
Your comment will age poorly when Trump’s tarrifs lead to a collapsing economy and he prints money like mad to solve it, resulting in hyper-inflation letting President Musk keep his election promise.
Wondering how that connects as I didn’t mention tarrifs?
Surely it’s essy to find $2tr in the Homeland Security/ military budget?
Not even there. DoD is ~$840B and DHS another sixty. Not even one trillion in the entire US security apparatus, but they were going to so easily find twice that. It was always pure nonsense.
I expect them to privatize and then somehow claim they cut the budget because they are paying a private company instead of running whole departments themselves (govt)
This doesn’t look good for Elon. Lucky for him that he’s the president.
Doesn’t matter his fan base will eat it up
Remember when he landed people on Mars in 2022?
Can I get a video of the before and after claims? Gotta make the presentation super simple in this day and age.
Gasp. Lying cunt lied cuntily.
While having no fucking clue what he was talking about. More news at ten.
Is cuntily an adverb? If not, I feel like it should be.
Sounds like they’re not an efficient use of government resources and should be cut
Man, it’s almost like he has no idea what he’s talking about or something. Definitely a good candidate to be making policy decisions affecting millions of people.
Billions.
Oh? The places he’s looking at actually work fairly efficiently already? Or the inefficiencies are outside their control? The inefficient sections are the places he can’t go, like the DOD?
Or they’ve already had their budgets slashed so much that there’s nothing left to slash. Which is pretty common unfortunately.
But those things actually help poor people. Can’t have that, can we?
Wherever he cut, you can safely assume it will only hit the people at the bottom, not those at the top.
i’m actually kind of shocked he admitted this. isn’t his usual strategy to promise super unrealistic things, not deliver, and then make the same promise the next year?
Indeed, but I bet he isn’t used to hide things in the public. This is a federal budget, not yet another of his corporations. I bet he knows the very best accountants but that’s just different.
Ya, so, we’re not going to do any of the things we promised. We’re just going to try to punish our political enemies and fuck shit up while looting every last penny that we can and running away while the country burns.
“Savings” they will find:
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any agencies that monitor, counteract or release reports on Putin and Russian activity
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agencies that regulate electric vehicle production or road safety
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Agencies that regulate space flight and aerial pollution
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The NLRB, OSHA and whichever agencies work to oppose child labor
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agencies that regulate pharmaceutical pump and dump schemes
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agencies that regulate emerald mines
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The CFPB
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agencies that monitor ethics among government employees
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agencies that regulate recreational ketamine, ritalin and cocaine use
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child protective services and agencies that intervene in spousal abuse
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anecdotes that certify or otherwise support divorce attorneys
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agencies that originate, maintain and enforce restraining orders
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agencies that track and publish flight information to enable safer travel between all of the aircraft simultaneously in the sky.
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agencies that allow for the creation, distribution and use of rape kits (yes, even though there’s a backlog. You’re very clever)
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Agencies that keep a database of all people with small, odd shaped penises that no longer get hard…
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If RFK is crazy because a worm ate part of his brain, it seems like Enron Musk may have had drugs that are the equivalent of 2 worms.
He’s been known to, shall we say, “macrodose” ketamine at parties.
I have macro dosed ketamine and I know that there are no 2 trillion to cut in the government of the US.
Yes, but how often have you done it and were you stupid to begin with?
Elon is such a dumbass.
Edit: I’m sorry, *President Elon is such a dumbass.
I want to join truth social just to call out “president Elon”
Never fear rich people and corporations - Trump is still going to do another $2T tax cut regardless.
It’s all going to be healthcare / social safety nets, and it’s going to be dwarfed by the tax cuts Trump gives people.
