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Elon Musk: “The interest payments on the debt exceed the entire military…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 16:06

So that's 2,000 billion dollars of waste, waste and fraud that's happening. And the cost of our debt has gotten so high that, that just The interest payments on the debt exceed the entire military budget. And it was just growing out of control. So the country was going bankrupt. It's just, you know, a country is no different from a person. (16:06–16:10)

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