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.
Okay, I feel like I’m going crazy here.
Can someone please acknowledge the fact that Elon Musk, as a private citizen, just created his very own government department, and people seem to be just going along with it?
next year they’ll raise the deficit by $2T and start saying that they saved $2T off of a $4T raise to the budget
You don’t say…
Sounds like they’re not an efficient use of government resources and should be cut
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.
Not to mention overdosing on money and ego. That stuff makes a person crazy.
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?
Yeah a lot of people who know nothing about ketamine love to blame it for Musk’s idiocy.
Dude is just a moron no matter what drugs he takes.
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
He has a fan base?
First day on the Internet?
Yes I’m just learning about this guy. Doesn’t seem like the type of bloke who would have fans.
I wish I could have lived in your world these past 10 years. I mean that (mostly) sincerely.
I kind of wish he could have lived out his life in that world.
Yes he does. Right now they are all virtually MAGA as well. They believe Leon can do no wrong and believe that all the MAGAs are going to buy Tesla now.
Correct me if I’m wrong. I was under the impression that a substantial part of MAGAs are climate change deniers and gasoline bros who drive huge trucks and SUVs. Now they all want teslas? I’m confused.
Yup. It keeps him from falling over from all of the blowing.
Who’s blowing whom?
Exactly.
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.
Richest man in the world can’t afford the time and expense to shave?
That scruff looks bad at all levels.
Too busy becoming the top-ranked Diablo player.
If allowed, Elon will find trillions to funnel to himself and Trump’s cronies however.
Oh make no mistake, his goal is to be the world’s first trillionaire within the next 4-years. Why else would he so publicly be going full fascist unless he was ready to fully embrace the concept of “fuck everyone and everything ever to be” money.
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?
But those things actually help poor people. Can’t have that, can we?
Any inefficiency likely comes from private industry bending the government over and stealing our wallet. I’ve been paid obscenely better as a contractor than my government counterparts, and I’m probably only seeing half of what my company charges. Entire departments are twenty contractors at a cost of $5 million per year and two actual government employees making a grand total of $60k each. Maybe double that at most by the time you include all the benefits.
But if you try to trim that, you’re cutting into the profits of private industry, and we sure as fuck can’t have that, can we?
And a bunch of bureaucracy in government with budgets, approvals and checks etc were put in place as cost cutting in the first place.
Or they’ve already had their budgets slashed so much that there’s nothing left to slash. Which is pretty common unfortunately.
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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.
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MF’ing d-bag backs down on his B.S.
Now that’s news!
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.
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)
The funny thing is…it’s not like their voters would care if they lied. They could literally say “We cut the budget by $17 trillion by making sure the trans kids don’t get surgeries!” And their voters would fucking cheer.
They wouldn’t look deep enough to actually care what they cut.
So the question is why even make this announcement? I’m guessing it’s a distraction from something else.
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?
After hyperinflation, Musk will easily cut $100T from the budget, making your claim that only an idiot would believe he could find $2T in cuts laughable.
Aha, well played!
Makes me glad I don’t hold dollars.
Yeah maybe it’s time to buy some gold
Gold is a good option, and I have some, but I also have some Monero.
Starts thinking of all his old pc equipment How much gold is in this stuff
Not much
Ahh, his administration hasn’t even officially begun and already we have the Memberberry shadow president. I think someone should have t-shirts made up.
The next 4-years are going to be… I honestly have NFC.
