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Elon Musk at Trump Cabinet meeting U.S. will go ‘bankrupt’ without DOGE

Published | Video Starts at 01:52

That's the reason I'm here and taking a lot of plaque and getting a lot of death threats, by the way. I mean, I like to stack them up. But if we don't do this, … I'm confident at this point...that we can actually find a trillion dollars in savings. … And obviously that can only be done with the support of everyone in this room. And I'd like to thank everyone for your support. Thank you very much. (01:52–02:06)

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Asserts confidence in finding a trillion dollars in budget savings.

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