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Elon Musk's Speech on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race and Government Efficiency

Published March 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 35:55

But I think what really matters is that government spending is not far in excess of government revenue. That's a fundamental issue that we have where we have a deficit of $2 trillion and we have Interest payments now exceed the entire budget of the military. In fact, that was a big wake up call for me was when the amount of money that we pay in national debt interest exceeded the Defense Department budget. (35:55–36:02)

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“We found 20 million dead people mocked as alive in the Social Security database.”
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“40% of the calls into Social Security were fraudulent.”
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“The only two American car companies that have not gone bankrupt are Tesla and Ford.”
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“Japan is in absolute population decline. So they're losing about, I think, roughly a million people a year.”
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“Korea has only a third replacement rate, which means that in three generations, the country will be 3 or 4% of its current size.”
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“The House majority right now is razor thin. It's really just a few seats.”
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“If the Supreme Court is able to redraw the district, they will gerrymander the districts and deprive Wisconsin of two House seats on the…”
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“The result of that could be that the House switches to a Democratic House.”
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“The reforms that we're getting done in D.C. thanks to President Trump and his great team, are really profound.”
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“There is a tremendous amount of waste and fraud in the federal government.”
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“The legacy media is in part to blame for this and maybe primarily to blame for this.”
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“It's just indicative of the poor quality of education pushed by the National Department of Education.”
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“Let the states decide on the educational agenda and not have something pushed by a bunch of NEO Marxists in D.C.”
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“It's astounding how much anti American propaganda is pushed on kids today in schools.”
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“Judges should be simply interpreting the law, not making the law.”
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“Any federal judge can stop any action by the President, you know, of the United States.”
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“It's quite shocking that...in New York and California, it's like illegal to show ID at an election.”
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“What's happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives.”
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“The betting markets vary between 85% and 90% Probability of loss for Justice Schimmel.”
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“The Dems are 100,000 votes ahead.”
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“If the people that voted for President Trump simply vote on Tuesday, we will win.”
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“With Grok, our aspiration is a maximally truth seeking AI.”
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“There is a massive amount of corruption, but it is circuitous.”
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“The government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer governed by the laws of the United States.”
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“I'm highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of [wealthy members of…”
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“There were a lot of Republicans that were debanked thousands, which is really outrageous.”
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“Violent protests overwhelmingly is coming from the left these days.”
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“All of the legacy media and all of the new social media were in lockstep together and they were all parroting the same left wing talking…”
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“On the X platform, we don't prioritize one side or the other. We try to be as fair as possible.”
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“There's a very big rise in the number of administrators, but not a very big rise in the number of teachers.”
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“Administrative expense has gone ballistic, but teaching expense is more or less flat.”
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“I think there's like 20,000 people that work at the Fed. Seems pretty high.”
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“Government spending is not far in excess of government revenue. We have a deficit of $2 trillion.”
Elon Musk's Speech on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race and Government Efficiency | Uploaded March 30, 2025 | 35:27-35:39
“The very simple, straightforward goal of the DOGE team is to get rid of waste and fraud.”
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“We're trying to save a trillion dollars of expenditures.”
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“The Democrat administration, the Biden administration, has basically taken every arm of the US Government and bent it towards creating a…”
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“They're actually spending at this point tens of billions to attract and retain illegals in the United States.”
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“With the asylum program, they can get a green card within a year, and then they can get citizenship as quickly as four years after getting a…”
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“It was a massive, large scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United…”
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“New York tried to make it legal for illegal immigrants to vote in the state of New York that was only shut down by the New York Supreme…”
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“California has made it health care available to all illegals in the state.”
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“They initially claimed that [healthcare for illegal immigrants in California] would only cost 3 billion. It's now 9 billion and climbing.”
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“Federal Emergency Management Agency funds were being used to house illegals in luxury hotels in New York.”
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“The time frame for going from asylum to citizen is roughly five years.”
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“You can show basically, like a fake utility bill or, you know, a medical bill and school id. And you get a Social Security number.”
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“If you turn the swing states blue, then there are no swing states. And then we're in a permanent one, one party system.”
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“The same people who said, who are saying that there should be no voter ID at voting stations demanded vaccine ID from everyone.”
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“Decentralization is good to minimize corruption.”
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“We're trying to be as literal as possible. It just Department of Government Efficiency.”
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“If it doesn't seem sensible, then we say, well, we shouldn't spend that money anymore and we should stop it.”
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“All the Doge actions are posted on the doge.gov website and on the Doge handle on X.”
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“At least for some period of time, we're going to make sure that your taxpayer money is spent at least 15% better.”
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“If we have the combination of a trillion dollar increase in economic output and a trillion dollar decrease in the budget deficit, then the…”
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“Inflation is really just a pernicious tax that has been used by governments throughout history.”
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“By reducing waste and fraud will essentially make the economy more efficient and will shift people resources from the government to the…”
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“Of the 7 trillion in government spending, let's try to see if we can make it 15% more efficient.”
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“We found there were a whole bunch of what I call ghost payments going out where the government contracting officer had retired or changed…”
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“We made a recommendation to the treasury that the payment classification codes and the explanation for the payment be mandatory fields and…”
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“The government could not pass an audit because the information did not exist that would be required to pass an audit.”
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“My guess is this will probably save $100 billion a year.”
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“The actual thing we're doing is making sure that people do get their Social Security and that it doesn't get stolen.”
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“It is actually possible to both register to vote on Tuesday. If someone has not registered to vote, they can register to vote in Wisconsin…”
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“There is over $30 trillion of national debt and that doesn't count future obligations.”
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“A country collectively can also go de facto bankrupt, essentially by diluting the currency to where it's worthless.”
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“Unless we take immediate and dramatic action with respect to government spending, we're in deep trouble.”
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“As government spending is made more efficient and spending is reduced, the tax buyer inflation is reduced.”
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“The more people in a country that are engaged in producing useful products and services, the better off that country will be.”
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“The birth rate in the United States has been below replacement rate since roughly when I was born around 1970, 71.”
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“I think last year was the lowest birth rate on record.”
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“We're seeing this trend [of low birth rates] in almost every country on Earth.”
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“It seems like some companies are not being charged the right amount for package delivery.”
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“There's probably more administrative overhead [in the Postal Service] than there should be.”
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“The state can take your kid in California if you don't respect [a 10-year-old's pronouns].”
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“We plan to build two towers at the Cape in Florida and then probably some more elsewhere in the future.”
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“Neuralink has had in monkeys a working device we call Blindsight.”
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“We're hoping later this year to do our first device implant for human, enabling someone who is completely blind to see.”
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“We should restore the Smith-Mundt Act so that the government cannot spy or issue propaganda to the people.”
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“DOGE will absolutely ensure that people get their Social Security, make sure they get their Social Security, make sure they get their…”
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“America needs to be financially solvent. You know, that's what DOGE is about, trying to just make sure America is financially solvent.”
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“Brad's election could decide the future of the House of Representatives.”
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“It could decide then the future of America and the future of the world.”
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