Musk hates government spending--unless the money goes to him
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have attacked multiple government agencies, purporting to find waste and fraud. But those claims continue to quickly collapse under independent scrutiny, with “billions” in so-called savings turning out to be fraudulent.
At the same time, the real cuts that DOGE has put in place have hurt ordinary people in the United States and around the world. Cuts to agencies like the United States Agency for International Development have reduced vital funding for American farmers, and multiple contracts canceled by DOGE are undermining services for military veterans.
Musk has repeatedly claimed these actions are saving taxpayers money and recently wrote, “There are millions of minor savings that add up to billions of dollars cumulatively.”
But years before he was gutting vital services and claiming to be in favor of saving tax dollars, Musk built his multi-billion-dollar empire on government handouts.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/26/2306379/-Musk-wouldn-t-be-the-richest-man-without-38B-in-government-handouts
Entitled asshole.
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