Elon Musk: “When you stop fraudulent and wasteful payments, the…”

“That's most of what was done. And it's still going on, by the way. DOGE is still happening. But it turns out When you stop fraudulent and wasteful payments, the fraudsters don't confess to us. They actually start yelling all sorts of nonsense that you're stopping essential payments to needy people. But actually you're not. You know, we get this thing like saying, oh, you've got to send this thing for whatever.” (1:44:53–1:45:02)

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