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Elon Musk: “Most of the fraud is non discretionary. It's basically a…”

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Published | Video Starts at 2:28:34

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. It's basically a fraudulent Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. Disability. There's a zillion government payments. And a bunch of these payments are in fact, they're block transfers to the states. (2:28:34–2:28:41)

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Asserts that most government fraud occurs in non-discretionary programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

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