Michael Shoebridge
Elon Musk has the goal of saving $1 trillion dollars from the U.S. Federal Government’s expenditure by 30 September 2025. He has to find cuts of $4 billion every day until then. The sheer numbers mean Pentagon and U.S. military power will be in the frame along with everything else.
At the remarkable February Musk-Trump Cabinet meeting, President Trump told Musk to be more aggressive – because it was running about $15 billion behind at that time.
So, we’re only at the beginning for what lies ahead to September.
The raw numbers of the U.S. budget are $7.028 trillion in spending, with $5.163 trillion in revenue, leaving a $1.865 trillion deficit. Musk’s $1 trillion savings goal Musk is 15% of U.S. government spending.
That scale of cuts can’t be found in diversity programs or ending salaries of dead civil servants still on payrolls – two poster children for the MAGA crowd. Closing whole agencies like the Education Department also won’t be enough – they’re blips in $7 trillion. DOGE will have to go to all big spend areas in the budget and get that chainsaw out that Musk frolicked with at a recent conservative convention. That means social security ($1.5 trillion) and health, Medicare and Medicaid (at $1.8 trillion) and Defense (at $859 billion).
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