PREVIEW: ELON MUSK: Colleague Veronique de Rugy comments on the major obstacle to Elon Musk's aim to cut government spending by $2 trillion. More tonight.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, speaking with colleague Veronique du Rieger de |
| 0:04.2 | the Mercatus Center writing at Reason Magazine about the task ahead of Mr. Musk, |
| 0:09.8 | reliminating $2 trillion of expenses in the federal government, |
| 0:14.2 | along with his partner Vivek Ramoswame, both tasked by Mr. Trump. |
| 0:19.6 | $2 trillion. |
| 0:21.2 | Can it be done? |
| 0:22.2 | Veronique says yes, but there is an obstacle. |
| 0:26.0 | It's called Congress. |
| 0:27.5 | Here's Veronique to explain much more of this tonight. |
| 0:31.2 | I agree with you in theory. |
| 0:34.0 | The problem is that he's going to have to be dealing with people who are going to have |
| 0:39.0 | to pass those cuts, right, Congress. And these guys, I mean, they get elected by promising |
| 0:48.4 | voters that they're going to pay stuff for them. And that's, and even if voters actually would not penalize them, there's a risk |
| 0:57.5 | aversion among politicians to actually say, you know what, I'm going to campaign on taking |
| 1:02.8 | away the stuff we pay for you. And I think this is probably one of Musk's biggest challenge |
| 1:10.0 | is going to be to convince Congress to go along with what he wants to do. |
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