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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.

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

Gasp. Lying cunt lied cuntily.

Remember when he landed people on Mars in 2022?

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.

Sounds like they’re not an efficient use of government resources and should be cut

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?

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?

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.

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

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.

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???

$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?

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:

• any agencies that monitor, counteract or release reports on Putin and Russian activity

• agencies that regulate electric vehicle production or road safety

• Agencies that regulate space flight and aerial pollution

• The NLRB, OSHA and whichever agencies work to oppose child labor

• agencies that regulate pharmaceutical pump and dump schemes

• agencies that regulate emerald mines

• The CFPB

• agencies that monitor ethics among government employees

• agencies that regulate recreational ketamine, ritalin and cocaine use

• child protective services and agencies that intervene in spousal abuse

• anecdotes that certify or otherwise support divorce attorneys

• agencies that originate, maintain and enforce restraining orders

• agencies that track and publish flight information to enable safer travel between all of the aircraft simultaneously in the sky.

• agencies that allow for the creation, distribution and use of rape kits (yes, even though there's a backlog. You're very clever)

• Agencies that keep a database of all people with small, odd shaped penises that no longer get hard....

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

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.

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! 🤦

Elon is such a dumbass.

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

next year they'll raise the deficit by $2T and start saying that they saved $2T off of a $4T raise to the budget

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

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

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.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED by this revelation!