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Elon Musk: “The government was paying for thousands of licenses of…”

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

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ELON MUSK JOINS VERDICT - PART 1 Verdict Ep. 214

Published | Video Starts at 03:00

Yes. We found entire situations of software licenses or media subscriptions where there were zero. Logins, and yet we were paying for it. Yes, The government was paying for thousands of licenses of software or media subscriptions, and no one had ever logged in even once. Or like credit cards, you found the same thing with government credit cards. We found that there are twice as many credit cards as there are humans. (03:00–03:08)

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