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RAND BACKS MUSK: 'Big, Beautiful' Spending Bill UNDERMINES DOGE

The bill would would explode the debt by $4 trillion virtually erasing all the work Elon and his team have done.

One of the most promising parts of Donald Trump’s second term was the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

Musk’s original goal was to find $2 trillion in cuts. DOGE did find billions.

All DOGE could really do, mostly, is find and recommend the cuts. It takes Congress to actually cut the spending. Virtually all Republicans originally supported Musk and DOGE, in rhetoric and theory.

But now the time has come. This isn’t campaign mode. Trump won. That part’s done.

This is getting sh** done mode.

We have a Republican president RIGHT NOW. We have a Republican Congress RIGHT NOW. This might be the only chance that Republicans could actually make the cuts DOGE recommended.

And yet the current spending bill - that passed a Republican led House - does none of that.

In fact, it adds $4 trillion to the national debt.

WTF? ...




... Thomas Massie caught holy hell from MAGA Republicans for opposing the House spending bill that passed. He was joined by Warren Davidson.

Why did Massie oppose it? For the same reasons Musk said in that interview: It does not include the DOGE cuts and adds trillions to America’s $36 trillion national debt.

But Republicans were supposed to support it because… well, that’s unclear. Something about cutting spending in ten years which is totally unrealistic and we’ve heard it before. The cuts never comes. ...

The re-election of Donald Trump has given Americans a unique chance to begin to clean up our debt and endless spending, an effort no Democrat or conventional Republican president was likely to lead.

Are we just going to throw this opportunity way?

Are we just going to throw this opportunity way?