If they go after Medicaid or Medicare it might bring more attention to how fucked up insurance is for Americans. I don't want them to be empowered to make any suggestions, but this might just bring a tense situation to a head.

Likely because he refuses to put his own stuff under that microscope

$2 Trillion was more than the discretionary budget of the US. It literally couldn't be done.

Which is why it was a stupid promise and literally anyone with any expertise could tell you that. Which shows you how unserious Musk is about this.

Now that he cut the promise in half and it's still politically impossible but not literally impossible, I reiterate my request...say how you plan to do it. Give us a rough idea what programs are being cut, even the easiest 20%.

By having the conversation about the number alone, we're buying his political premise. The money is not there for no reason, these are democratically popular government programs, that's why they exist. So which popular programs are you getting rid of to save this money?

of course you can't you stupid fuck.

fucking troglodyte pretends he's iron man when he can't do basic arithmetic.

Can we take a moment to acknowledge a few billionaires made their own government department, and people are just rolling with it?

They're a random private company. Why are we just letting that fact slide???

Seriously what an unexpected outcome....

The one trillion difference needs to be paid back from his salary and a potential salary claw back for this underperformance.

Man who lies endlessly caught lying again. More at 7.

Elon is such a dumbass.

Edit: I'm sorry, *President Elon is such a dumbass.

And Trump won't bring down grocery prices. I really wish Americans were smarter. It's going to be a rough ride. At least I'm not going to have to subscribe to the NYT to see the obituary that I want to.

It’ll be 2 million, and way less than the amount the DOGE department manages to embezzle itself.

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?

If he cuts anything it’ll be support for middle class and poor people and itll be jack shit, it will fuck everything up and it will be touted by clowns as a success.

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.

Remember when he landed people on Mars in 2022?

I'm shocked, SHOCKED by this revelation!

It's all going to be healthcare / social safety nets, and it's going to be dwarfed by the tax cuts Trump gives people.

This doesn't look good for Elon. Lucky for him that he's the president.

Oh please, you're not even going to get $100 billion without stepping on some toes in the Military-Industrial complex, and that's going to make you some lifelong political enemies.

Those two clowns couldn't find their own asses in a dark room with both hands and a flashlight.

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! 🤦

Gasp. Lying cunt lied cuntily.

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.

If allowed, Elon will find trillions to funnel to himself and Trump's cronies however.

Never fear rich people and corporations - Trump is still going to do another $2T tax cut regardless.