Elon didn’t get the memo
Candidate Trump promised he would not allow any cuts to Social Security or Medicare if elected. Looks like President Musk didn’t get the memo:
“Despite reporting from The Washington Post on Monday suggesting that DOGE officials are starting to worry about bad “PR,” Musk suggested later in the day he could push for big cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and other safety net programs.
““The waste and fraud in entitlement spending — most of the federal spending is entitlements — that’s the big one to eliminate,” he said. “That’s sort of half trillion, maybe $600-700 billion a year.”
“There is no expert on the planet who thinks there is $700 billion worth of annual fraud in America’s safety net programs. Musk at one point in the interview cited a Government Accountability Office report which estimated that the government may lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud, but that report covered the whole of the federal government — not just those programs. (The sizable frauds occurring in programs like Medicare and Medicaid are typically carried out by scam businesses, not recipients.)”
I’m sure President Musk is lying. He lies as easily as breathing. But as Goebbels and Stalin knew, if you repeat lies often enough, people start to believe them.
Musk lies about Social Security
“Despite reporting from The Washington Post on Monday suggesting that DOGE officials are starting to worry about bad “PR,” Musk suggested later in the day he could push for big cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and other safety net programs.
““The waste and fraud in entitlement spending — most of the federal spending is entitlements — that’s the big one to eliminate,” he said. “That’s sort of half trillion, maybe $600-700 billion a year.”
“There is no expert on the planet who thinks there is $700 billion worth of annual fraud in America’s safety net programs. Musk at one point in the interview cited a Government Accountability Office report which estimated that the government may lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud, but that report covered the whole of the federal government — not just those programs. (The sizable frauds occurring in programs like Medicare and Medicaid are typically carried out by scam businesses, not recipients.)”
I’m sure President Musk is lying. He lies as easily as breathing. But as Goebbels and Stalin knew, if you repeat lies often enough, people start to believe them.
Musk lies about Social Security
Ask Sen. Rick Scott about Medicare/Medicaid fraud. He is an expert.