Washington: Tesla CEO and DOGE Head, Elon Musk, criticised the current state of US spending, saying that an average citizen in the country “should be mad as hell” over the expenditure of the tax money.
In an interview with Fox News telecast on Tuesday (local time), Musk said that US President Donald Trump inherited a USD 2 trillion trade deficit. He further warned that “America will go bankrupt” if it fails to bring the deficit under control.
Criticising the USAID spending, he added, “I think the average taxpaying American should be mad as hell because their tax money is being poorly spent.”
“Well, the — the overall goal is to try to get a trillion dollars out of the deficit. And if we if the deficit is not brought under control, America will go bankrupt. This is a very important thing for people to understand. A country is no different from an individual, in that if an individual overspends, an individual can go bankrupt, and so can a country. And the out, the massive waste, fraud, and abuse that has been going on, which is leading to a USD 2-trillion-a-year deficit, that’s what the president was handed on Jan 20th, a USD 2 trillion deficit. It’s insane,” he said in the interview.
Donald Trump agreed, saying, “Yes, we inherited it.” He said that inflation is back, but he has nothing to do with it, as the Democrats ran the country for the last 4 years.
“No, think of it, inflation is back. And they said, “...I had nothing to do with it. These people have run the country. They spent money like nobody has ever spent. They were given USD 9 trillion to throw out the window — USD 9 trillion, and they spent it on the Green New Scam, I call it. It’s the greatest scam in the history of the country. One of them. We have a lot of them, I guess. But one of them,” Trump said.
Stating that there are “hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fraud” in the system, Trump said Musk is doing an “amazing job” with the DOGE.
Trump spoke about the waste and fraud that Elon Musk and DOGE is finding and stressed that Musk is doing an “amazing job.”
“They’re finding things far worse than that. And they’re finding billions and it will be hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of fraud. I say waste and abuse, but fraud, waste, and abuse. And he’s doing an amazing job. And he attracts a young, very smart type of person. I call them high-IQ individuals, and they are very high IQ. And when they go in to see the people and talk to these people — you know, the people think they’re going to pull it over. They don’t. These guys are smart, and they love the country. You know, there’s a certain something. But he uses the word “care.” So, people have to care,” Donald Trump told Fox News. (IANS)
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