Musk Proposes ‘DOGE’ Program to Cut Government Spending
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:09.0 | Elon Musk is launching a new program, probably with Donald Trump, |
| 0:13.0 | and he's planning to help purge the government of overspending in many different ways, probably. |
| 0:19.0 | Now look, remember, shortly after billionaire Elon Musk purchased Twitter, |
| 0:24.8 | what happened, right? Well, Elon Musk was seen carrying a kitchen sink into the social media's |
| 0:30.3 | headquarters. And what was the meaning of that? Why was Elon Musk carrying a kitchen sink? Well, a lot of people took that as a sign that he was planning to get rid of, you know, as the old saying goes, everything but the kitchen sink. |
| 0:45.3 | And he kind of did that, right? He ended up firing an estimated 80% of Twitter staff. |
| 0:51.3 | Maybe the remaining ones are the kitchen sinks of Twitter. Some actually make the number |
| 0:55.9 | even higher up to like 90%. Regardless, he fired a huge number of people. And it's interesting |
| 1:04.0 | now because Elon Musk seems to be planning the same thing or something similar for the U.S. |
| 1:10.4 | government. |
| 1:15.4 | Now, former President Donald Trump has said that if he wins the election, right, next week, |
| 1:22.7 | he is going to appoint Elon Musk as the head of a, quote, Department of Government Efficiency, |
| 1:29.2 | which is the acronym Dog, which, you know, Elon Musk, he likes these internet memes. |
| 1:33.0 | He has a cryptocurrency called, you know, D-O-G-E dog. |
| 1:35.7 | And again, it's the same acronym as that. |
| 1:39.6 | Now, look, Elon Musk, he recently discussed his plans to cut government spending during a campaign event, you know, for Trump in New York on Saturday. |
| 1:43.8 | This is what he said when he was asked |
| 1:46.5 | how much of the current administration's, you know, |
| 1:48.4 | $6.5 trillion budget could be trimmed. |
| 1:52.1 | Watch this. |
| 1:53.5 | Well, I think we can do at least $2 trillion. |
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