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Elon Musk: “Payments [from the Treasury] have no payment categorization…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Joe Rogan Experience #2281 - Elon Musk part 1

Published | Video Starts at 22:29

That's responsible for almost $5 trillion payments a year, roughly a billion dollars an hour. And when we came there, we're looking at this payment. It's like the Payments [from the Treasury] have no payment categorization code and no description on the payment. like basically untraceable blank checks. This is the kind of thing that if it was done as a public company, the company would be immediately delisted and the executive team would be thrown in prison. (22:29–32:06)

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