May 30, 2025.

In July 24, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Tuey in the New York Times,

billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations

into his businesses would, take me down.

I can't be president, he wrote, but I can help Trump defeat Biden, and I will.

After appearing on stage with Trump on October 5th, Musk texted a person close to him. I'm feeling more optimistic after

tonight. Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix. About an hour later, he added,

this is not something on the chessboard, so they will be quite surprised. Lasers from space.

Musk invested about $290 million in the 2024 election, and when Trump took office became a fixture in the White House, heading the Department of

Government Efficiency. It set out to kill government programs by withholding

congressionally approved funds, a practice

that courts have ruled unconstitutional and Congress expressly prohibited with the 1974

Impoundment Control Act. Musk vowed that his Department of Government Efficiency would cut

$2 trillion from the U.S. budget, but he quickly backed off on those numbers.

In the end, the Department of Government Efficiency claimed savings of $175 billion, but that claim

is unverifiable, and CNN's Casey Tolan says it's probably wrong. Less than half of it is backed up with

any documentation.

Instead, as CNN's Zachary B. Wolf reported today, since the Department of Government

Efficiency cut staffing at the enforcement wing of the Internal Revenue Service, for example,

and cut employees at National Parks, which also generate revenue, its cuts may well end up costing money.

Max Dyer, who heads the Partnership for Public Service, suggests the Department of Government

Efficiency cuts could cost the U.S. taxpayers $135 billion because agencies will need to train and hire replacements for the workers

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