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! 🤦

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

The second trillion will be found when DOGE Block 3 rolls out, and Elon's gonna need ... $5 billion dollars for DOGE Block 2 and 3.

(DOGE Block 2 will find the first trillion, after DOGE Block 1 is later revised down to 750 billion)

Richest man in the world can't afford the time and expense to shave?

That scruff looks bad at all levels.

MF’ing d-bag backs down on his B.S.

Now that’s news!

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