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Elon Musk: “There was like probably 100, maybe $200 billion worth of…”

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

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Elon Musk on DOGE, AI, & Are we in a Simulation? | KMP Ep.18

Published | Video Starts at 02:46

We were a little bit successful. We were somewhat successful. I mean, we stopped a lot of. Funding for. That really just made no sense. That was just entirely wasteful. For example, There was like probably 100, maybe $200 billion worth of zombie payments per year. which simply by. Enforcing that there be a payment code. And an explanation for the payment. That the payment would not go out. (02:46–02:53)

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