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Elon Musk: “A friend of mine's daughter who's at law school at…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Elon Musk and President Trump Discuss Government Efficiency and Economic Reforms

Published | Video Starts at 25:36

And so we became essentially the Doge boogeyman, where if you know, any cut anywhere would be ascribed to Doge. You know, A friend of mine's daughter who's at law school at Georgetown thought that Doge had cut the Senate...internships for the Senate. And we have nothing to do with that. So if they have been cut, there's not to do with us, just as an example. (25:36–25:49)

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