Musk Moves On

Yesterday’s cabinet-wide press conference was not a farewell to Elon Musk, but it was a sign of coming changes.

The DOGE process will continue. Most of the people involved are staying on. And Musk will still be involved. But Tesla has suffered tremendous brand damage, and investors want Musk to refocus on his businesses.

The Left’s narrative that Elon Musk has gutted the federal government is simply absurd. It also shows why it is so difficult to stop this freight train of debt we are on that is headed to a colossal crash.

Musk said that DOGE has cut $160 billion in spending so far. That may sound like a huge amount of money. But under Joe Biden, spending levels were recklessly raised to the point that every three to four months we are spending $1 trillion more than the revenues we are taking in.

One trillion is 1,000 billion. And, so far, the DOGE team has identified $160 billion in potential savings.

You are probably familiar with the national debt clock. It shows the deficit spending happening at a rate that is impossible to comprehend. Congressional Democrats came up with something a bit different.

They created a “DOGE Tracker” and claim the president is withholding $430 billion in federal funds. That’s money Joe Biden committed last year that Trump officials have put on hold in order to vet the programs.

Democrats are now saying that Trump and Musk are withholding $430 billion that was supposed to go to you, the American people.

Their logic doesn’t hold up.

Donald Trump is preventing the American people from going another $430 billion in debt. He’s not withholding something from us; he’s trying to save us from the day of debt reckoning. 

We are paying $1 trillion a year in interest payments on the debt -- more than what we spend on our national defense. And every day when the sun rises, the federal government must come up with another $3 billion just to pay the interest on what we have already borrowed.

By the way, earlier this week, Musk’s SpaceX company carried out two launches on the same day, putting 50 Starlink satellites into orbit. He is responsible for 90% of all payload launches in the entire world. These all increase our communication abilities and bring more opportunity to more people, as well as increasing our national defense abilities.