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Not true. Musk wanted to go after Medicare benefits. He said "Entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid need to be eliminated." Don't sanewash here. Musk has no
by estearum 1y ago
Not true. Musk wanted to go after Medicare benefits.
He said "Entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid need to be eliminated."
Don't sanewash here. Musk has no clue what he's doing.
- cogman10 1y agoExactly. It's the job of the atorneys general to investigate and prosecute fraud. Trump fired them almost day 1. If they wanted to actually address that, then they should have put all of the doge employees to work for the AG.
- estearum 1y agoCMS itself could also do a lot of work, especially the OIGs Unfortunately: also fired day (week?) one.
- AnthonyMouse 1y ago> He said "Entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid need to be eliminated." The only thing on the internet that search engines turn up for that exact quote is your post. Here's the actual quote: > “Most of the federal spending is entitlements. So that’s the big one to eliminate. That’s the sort of half trillion, maybe six, 700 billion,” Musk said on Monday in an interview with Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow. Musk’s comments came in response to a question from Kudlow about whether there would be a report on targeting waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending. Medicare is around a trillion dollars by itself, so those numbers don't make any sense as the removal of entire programs, but total entitlement spending is several trillion in total and a reduction in those amounts would make sense in the context of targeting waste, fraud and abuse in entitlement spending, which is the thing he was being asked about.