As DOGE, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency takes off, the two billionaires are looking to cut federal programs and agencies as they look to further Musk’s goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget. While critics have noted that this goal — like much of Musk’s rhetoric — is so hyperbolic as to be impossible, that hasn’t stopped the duo from loudly proclaiming a growing list of targets in an effort to sow fear and make it seem like they are doing something.


One of their recently chosen targets is California long-suffering high-speed rail project. A federally funded effort that Musk has championed before; the rail project was originally approved by voters in a ballot initiative in 2008. Since then, billions of dollars have been spent and less than a quarter of the proposed rail line has been constructed. The project is partly funded by federal grants, although Trump – during his first term –put a temporary end to this. When Biden took office, he was turned on the financing tap again. Now it will probably be turned off again.


It’s earlier reported that Musk promoted the Hyperloopa futuristic underground shuttle, to cause problems for the California rail project. Musk talked a lot about the Hyperloop for years, but never planned to build it. It was a diversionary strategy that the auto magnate reportedly hoped would make “the public and lawmakers” reconsider their investments in the train system. You know, because he’s in the business of selling cars. Last week, Ramaswamy addressed the project in the same way a message on Musk’s platformX, who called the track “a wasting vanity project” that “had wasted billions in tax money, with little prospect of completion in the coming decade.” He added: “President Trump rightly revoked ~$1 billion in federal funds for this nonsense in 2019, but Biden reversed that and doubled down. Time to end the waste.”


Ramaswamy’s comments came not long before he and Musk descended on Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers and discuss their upcoming plans. The two billionaires appeared in DC on Thursday for a closed-door session with Republicans reportedly discussed how DOGE would “revive the principle of limited government.” That meeting, which included the Senate’s new Republican leader, John Thune, discussed possible targets for spending cuts, apparently including mandatory spending programs. such as Social Security and Medicare. Indeed, NBC reports that Thune told a journalist that “mandatory programs may be areas they want to cut, like Social Security, for example.” The news comes after a joint pressure by some Republican leaders to demonize those programs.


Another goal Musk discussed was federal subsidies for electric vehicles. In what appears to have been a rather brazen attempt to push through a policy that would undoubtedly benefit his own EV company Tesla, Musk reportedly said a journalist that he thought the government should ‘abolish all credits’. In July, Musk similarly proposed eliminating federal subsidies for EV companies. post on X: “Take away the subsidies. It will only help Tesla.” He added: “Also remove subsidies from all sectors!”


The whole reason Musk is in the position he is currently in is because he used his immense wealth to get Trump elected, and new information also came to light on Friday about how much money Musk had spent in that regard. An analysis of recently released Federal Election Commission documents found that the tech mogul had done just that over a quarter of a billion dollars spent– or about $277 million – in his effort to get Trump back into the White House. The Washington Post has noted that Musk likely spent more, as “the entirety of Musk’s donations this election cycle” may not be “reflected in publicly available documents.”


While much of Musk’s financial contributions went to America PAC, the political action committee he created, he also donated a large amount to lesser-known groups, including a little-known PAC aimed at convincing Americans that Trump didn’t want to take away abortion. rights. That PAC, named “RBG” after Ruth Bader Ginsberg, received as much as $20 million from Musk, according to the New York Times has reported.


Musk also revealed that he plans to use much of the infrastructure built during the campaign to continue advancing his political agenda in DC. keep America PAC activewith plans to use it both during and potentially Use it to oust liberal prosecutors across the country. Musk apparently plans to do that too continue using X (formerly Twitter) to reveal his and Trump’s agenda to the public.



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