Musk, after months of blustering, admits DOGE won’t find $2 trillion worth of cuts in federal budget
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is set to co-lead the new advisory Department of Government Efficiency, has admitted the agency likely won’t make the $2 trillion in federal budget cuts he originally promised.
Elon Musk says DOGE’s $2 trillion target for federal spending cuts was just a best-case scenario
Elon Musk initially pledged to cut some $2 trillion from the federal budget, alongside his DOGE partner, politician Vivek Ramaswamy.
Musk drops DOGE target to cut $2 trillion, saying half that would be ‘an epic outcome’
Elon Musk is lowering the target of his claim that he could cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, now saying half of that would be ideal. Musk, a co-chairman of the Department of Government Efficiency,
Elon Musk Is Already Backtracking on DOGE’s $2 Trillion Budget Cut Goals
I think if we try for $2 trillion, we’ve got a good shot at getting one,” Musk said, during a recent live streamed conversation on his platform, X. He added that eliminating $2 trillion was “like, the best-case outcome.
Elon Musk says cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget is a 'best-case outcome'
In a Wednesday interview on X, Elon Musk said cuts of $2 trillion to the federal budget might not be possible and was a "best-case outcome."
Elon Musk says DOGE probably won't find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump would most likely not find $2 trillion in savings, backtracking on a goal he set earlier as co-head of a new advisory body,
$2 Trillion in Spending Cuts? Musk Now Says DOGE Might Get to $1 Trillion
Elon Musk has made some big claims about the potential savings to be won by the efficiency effort he is leading under the new Trump administration, but on Thursday he admitted that the $2 trillion per year cost-cutting target he has cited in the past may be unreachable.
Musk Admits His DOGE Pledge to Save $2 Trillion Probably Isn’t Going to Happen
Elon Musk on Wednesday backtracked on his goal to cut $2 trillion from the U.S. budget in his role as the co-head of DOGE, Donald Trump ’s proposed new advisory body which aims to slash waste and regulations to lower taxes.
Musk: Cutting $2T through DOGE ‘best-case outcome’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the best case scenario would be to make $2 trillion in cuts to federal spending through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that he is
Elon Musk says DOGE saving $2 trillion in budget cuts is a 'best-case outcome'
Elon Musk told the political strategist Mark Penn that if DOGE tried to cut $2 trillion, it'd have a "good shot" of ending up at $1 trillion.
Musk Now Skeptical DOGE Effort Can Cut $2 Trillion From Budget
Billionaire Elon Musk expressed doubt that his government efficiency panel in President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration will actually be able to achieve $2 trillion in cuts to the US federal budget,
Elon Musk Walks Back Vow To Find $2 Trillion In Wasteful Spending
Trump and Republicans have nevertheless embraced Musk as a budget visionary, with Trump naming him to a nongovernment ...
Can DOGE actually save federal money by cutting government jobs? Unlikely, economist Joel Naroff says
The government is not a factory. Standard efficiency models, which usually involve cutting workers and adding capital, may ...