Elon Musk: “The interest on the national debt now exceeds the Defense…”

“The overall goal here with the DOGE team is to help address the enormous deficit we simply cannot sustain as a country. $2 trillion deficits. The interest rates, just The interest on the national debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending. We spend a lot on the Defense Department, but we're spending, like, over a trillion dollars on interest. If this continues, the country will go become de facto bankruptcy.” (03:53–03:59)

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