Musk’s earlier target, dismissed as unrealistic by experts, had included the entire discretionary budget of $1.7 trillion.
FFS! There's probably TODDLERS who know more about how the government works than Musk! 🤦
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Those two clowns couldn't find their own asses in a dark room with both hands and a flashlight.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED by this revelation!
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?
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?
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It's all going to be healthcare / social safety nets, and it's going to be dwarfed by the tax cuts Trump gives people.
Never fear rich people and corporations - Trump is still going to do another $2T tax cut regardless.
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.
It's because they were told they can't cut VA, SSI or Medicare, I promise.
The rich assholes always think they can just cut healthcare and retirement payouts but politicians know they will never get re-elected if it happens on their watch. The old people who rely on this shit are the only ones voting anyway.
We did this exercise as a civic learning experience in 9th year government/social studies classes. The teacher had us go through a mock (simplified) Federal budget and decide which line items to cut to achieve a "balanced budget" with debt reduction.
The problem is largely intractable for reasons that become obvious even to middleschool kids. Do you completely cut popular things like the space program? Gut entitlement spending? Massively increase taxes across all brackets? Reduce the military or infrastructure spending to laughable levels? All of those things are very unpopular but that is what it would really take to tackle the problem.
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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?
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.
Not to mention overdosing on money and ego. That stuff makes a person crazy.
next year they'll raise the deficit by $2T and start saying that they saved $2T off of a $4T raise to the budget
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.
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.
MF’ing d-bag backs down on his B.S.
Now that’s news!
You don't say...