Summary
Elon Musk, co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency under Donald Trump’s advisory team, revised his claim of finding $2 trillion in federal budget cuts to a “best-case outcome” of $1 trillion.
Musk’s earlier target, dismissed as unrealistic by experts, had included the entire discretionary budget of $1.7 trillion.
While Musk and co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy plan to recommend cuts, specifics remain unclear.
Experts warn savings may require targeting mandatory programs like Medicaid, potentially causing hardships.
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???
Because the media is owned by that same billionaire class
No but like… Even on lemmy, even left wing streamers, even my friends just kinda laugh and go “yeah, things are fucking crazy”
It’s like everyone just accepted it… Not the they like it, but that they’ve just accepted a billionaire has made a fake government department that is going to dictate terms to the rest of the government, and no one seems to really take a second to acknowledge that idea