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Musk goes There -- and Targets "Entitlement Spending" for quote "Elimination" [1]

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Date: 2025-03-15

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Did Musk really go there? It would seem so.

In all the chaos of the Trump-Musk Tear-Down-America agenda of this last week, there was some important News, that you may have missed. I know I did ...

www.theguardian.com — Mar 14, 2025

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Entitlements are “the big one to eliminate ,” [Musk] told Larry Kudlow, an economic adviser during Donald Trump’s first term, on Fox Business Network. “Maybe half a trillion or $600, $700bn a year.” Speaking about why he’d focus on entitlements, he claimed: “The waste and fraud in entitlement spending, which is most of the federal spending, is entitlements, so that’s the big one to eliminate.”

[...] [Musk] called entitlements “a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters”. “That’s why,” he continued, “Democrats are so upset about this situation. If we turn off this gigantic money magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave and they will lose voters.”

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There is so much wrong with those fabrications, it’s hard to know where to begin the Fact Checks.

Baffle them with BS — it’s still the Trump-Musk Motto.



Elon Musk Fox Interview — Transcript

www.rev.com — Mar 11, 2025

Elon Musk (02:20)

[...] Why are there 20 million people who are definitely dead marked as alive, in the Social security database? Hundreds of millions of dollars of small business administration loans were given out to people aged 11 and under, according to the social security. These must be some very enterprising 8 year olds. Larry Kudlow (03:18): And some pretty strong hundred-and-fifty-year-olds. Elon Musk (03:22): Exactly. As the president said, we have an enormous number of people marked as alive who are 160, he didn't know the country was that healthy.

[...] Larry Kudlow (12:39): You think you'll wind up getting to a trillion dollars of savings? Elon Musk (12:45): Unless we're stopped. We will get to a trillion dollars of savings. Larry Kudlow (12:48): That stuff can be translated. I mean we've been talking, we had Russell Vought, the OMB director on earlier through very rescission authority, impoundment authority. But I believe you said it earlier, it's an audit that will not gather dust on shelves. This is actually going to wind up with real savings, bend the spending baseline down . Elon Musk (13:09): Yeah. There've been many good audits like I said, done by Inspector Generals and by government accountability office. And they just haven't been implemented. Nothing's been done. I think the GAO identified that there were 17 million dead people in the social security database several years ago, it's now 20 million . But we haven't done anything about it. I think we can sort of look at this as a complaint minimization, optimization. So basically if the government sends money out, whether wasteful or fraudulent. Nobody complains if they receive money, but they do complain if they don't receive money. And people that complain the loudest are the ones receiving the fraudulent money. Larry Kudlow (13:59): And you're on it. Elon Musk (14:01): Yeah. I mean the goal here is let's not have America go bankrupt with waste and fraud. So that's what I'm here for and we're making good progress. Larry Kudlow (14:16): Yes, you are. You're going to go another year? Elon Musk (14:20): Yeah, I think so. Larry Kudlow (14:22): Final report, middle of next year. Elon Musk (14:26): Well, we're just getting things done. As opposed to writing a report like I said, reports don't mean anything you got to actually take action . So I mean the waste report in entitlement spending, which most of the federal spending is entitlements. So that's the big one to eliminate . That's the half trillion, maybe 6, 700 billion a year. That is also a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters . So this is why the Democrats are so upset about the situation because they're losing… If we turn off this gigantic money magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave and they'll lose voters.

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Joe Scarborough { Yeah, I know! Ugh. } does as pretty good job deconstructing these Musk Lies about Social Security here:

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