Elon Musk: “Many of these [government computer] systems are extremely…”

“Well, I actually just call myself a humble tech support here, because this is actually as crazy as it sounds, that is almost a literal description of the work that the Doge team is doing is helping fix the government computer systems. Many of these [government computer] systems are extremely old. They don't communicate. There are a lot of mistakes in the systems. The software doesn't work, so we are actually taxable. It's ironic, but it's true. The overall goal here with the Doge team is to help address the enormous deficit we simply cannot sustain as a country.” (00:51–00:58)

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