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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???

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.