Elon Musk: “If there were any cuts anywhere, then people would assume…”

“And as the President mentioned, you went through a lot to go through this process. Was it worth it for you? And what would you change? Yes. So what we found was happening was that If there were any cuts anywhere, then people would assume that was done by Doge. 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, Georgetown, thought that Doge had cut the Senate.” (26:07–26:14)

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