Elon Musk: “Federal government expenditures are 7.5 trillion a year.”

“Maybe, but we found that over seven years, the Social Security fraud they estimated was like 70 billions over seven years. So like 10 billion a year. So I'd be curious to see what the other 490 billion is. Federal government expenditures are 7.5 trillion a year. Yeah. What percentage, how competent do you think government is? The discretionary spending there is like 15%. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. Most of the fraud is non discretionary.” (2:28:20–2:28:23)

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