Trump-Musk news surges into spotlight - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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elon has issues with Trump's big
beautiful bill and plans to do something
about it now that he's leaving
government after five months this is
just another
day donald Trump's horrific trade policy
has sent American stock portfolios
plummeting downward at an alarmingly
fast pace and last night those stocks
had some company this morning SpaceX is
inching closer to its goal of deep space
missions but its latest test flight
shows that progress comes with risks
once in orbit Starship failed to deploy
its test payload eight dummy satellites
when a side hatch jammed then came a
leak in the fuel tank it was supposed to
splash down intact but it broke apart as
it fell back to Earth ah cool more fuel
soaked debris in our waters someone
heard that and grabbed his swim trunks
but speaking of things breaking apart
the same thing is happening to the
facade that Elon Musk cares about
government efficiency you know I was
like disappointed to see the massive
spending bill frankly uh which increases
the budget deficit not just decrease it
and undermines the work that the Doge
team is doing yeah Elon isn't mad he's
just disappointed i mean his Doge team
worked so hard to cut federal spending
not to mention doing it while they
abstained from masturbating in their
gaming chairs 24 hours a day elon isn't
just the richest man on the planet he's
also one of the greatest at pretending
that he gives two shits about cutting
the deficit it's all an act and with
Trump he has the perfect scene partner
this is what Elon does i mean the guy
pretends to have a full head of hair why
wouldn't he apply the same pretense to
government efficiency back in early
February just after Trump was elected
and the billionaire was still struggling
to find affordable child care Elon told
Americans that cutting the deficit
wasn't an option it was a matter of life
or death so we've got a $2 trillion
deficit and if this if we don't do
something about this deficit country is
going bankrupt so what what I really
want to say is like it's not optional
for us to to reduce the federal expenses
it's essential reducing federal expenses
is essential the same way that humans
need to eat food to survive and Steven
Miller needs to drown puppies to feel
anything so honestly let's cut the
elon's goal for Doge was never cutting
the deficit it was always to gut every
single agency that was investigating him
or had oversight into him and with
Donald Trump's help he pulled it off in
spectacular fashion take the Department
of Labor which oversees the National
Labor Relations Board the Office of
Federal Contract Compliance Programs and
the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission they had over a dozen open
investigations into Tesla and SpaceX
regarding alleged unfair labor practices
safety violations and discriminatory
work practices not to mention a handful
of complaints that their boss was
dressing too divorced so how did they
address this department's inefficiency
you ask by firing everybody at the top
conducting those investigations how
about the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau consumers submitted over 300
complaints about Tesla to the CFPB 66 of
them were submitted in the last year so
what did Elon and Trump do not only did
they fire the director and put their own
guy in under the guise of efficiency
they closed the CFPB's headquarters and
told the entire staff they couldn't
perform any work tasks and uh maybe I'm
wrong here but it seems like those work
tasks are an essential part of
protecting consumers or how about USA ID
the United States Agency for
International Development not to be
confused with USAD which is the agency
angry couples use when their partner
denies they said something in 2024 the
USAD inspector general initiated a probe
into Musk's Starlink satellite terminals
provided to the government of Ukraine
but you don't need an expensive
satellite link to figure out what
happened next elon shuttered the agency
and when the inspector general published
a report criticizing the administration
for what they' done they fired him in
other words Elon went scorched earth
against every single agency in the
department that had oversight into him
and his companies and yet conspicuously
absent in his quest to eliminate waste
fraud and abuse the Pentagon seven
failed audits in a row and no heads on
pikes no big shows of gutting sections
of the agency and in fact an increase in
funding to a trillion dollars if you can
explain to me how USAID which represents
a half of 1% of the budget was a day one
priority for Elon but the Department of
Defense which hasn't passed an audit
since Tamagotchis were still around gets
a trillion dollars with no questions
asked i'm all ears the reality is that
Elon did not come to Washington to fix
anything but rather to eliminate the
hurdles that stood in his way to
becoming even richer and Trump knew it
when he brought Elon in which is why the
answer today to this question was not
revealing at all president Elon Musk in
a television interview criticized the
one big beautiful bill saying he was
disappointed it it didn't cut enough
essentially that undercut the Doge
efforts what's your reaction to that
well my reactions a lot of things number
one we have to get a lot of votes we
can't be uh cutting you know we need we
need to get a lot of support and we have
a lot of support we had to get it
through the House the House was uh we
have no Democrats you know if it's up to
the Democrats they'll take the 65%
increase yeah okay I'll spare you the
suspense trump didn't have a single bad
thing to say about Elon it's like the
opposite of how he feels about Eric i
get that the media wants to frame this
as some big falling out between Donald
Trump and Elon Musk but there's no such
thing both of these guys are well aware
of what they're there to do and that is
to enrich themselves and every American
knows it i'm sorry but people are not
setting Teslas ablaze around the country
to celebrate Elon's efficiency it's
because they're furious at the con job
on full display remember again when Elon
said this about fixing the deficit what
what I really want to say is like it's
not optional for us to s to reduce the
federal expenses it's essential you know
what would essentially fix this deficit
problem taxing billionaires like Elon
the guy is parading himself around like
some white knight because Doge
recommended all of $150 billion in cuts
as if that would do anything to get our
deficit under control the budget that
Republicans are passing right now would
increase the deficit by $3.8 trillion
and yet we're sitting here pretending
that Elon did something if any of these
were serious about the debt
which again Elon claims is essential
they would adequately tax the wealthy
but he'll never recommend that because
it was never about the deficit it was
always about helping himself remember
Elon had the opportunity and the
political capital to do whatever he
wanted when Trump came into office and
he did why do you think he was jumping
for joy during the campaign wasn't
because he was about to get a free
chainsaw it's because he knew that if
his investment into Trump of $300
million paid off his problems would go
away not everyone else's elon trotted
his kid out because he desperately
wanted everyone to buy his kayfabe of
don't save this country for me save it
for the children but his children will
be just fine and so will the kids of
every other billionaire because in
Trump's bill which again will add $3.8
trillion dollars to the deficit the
wealthiest people in this country will
get trillions in tax cuts while the
poorest Americans actually see their
incomes fall elon can throw on as many
Occupy Mars t-shirts as he wants to
pretend that he's some quirky nerd
trying to do the right thing for America
but the only reason he should be trying
to create a home on another planet is
because everyone on this one knows that
he's full of americans do not want
to go to Mars nearly as badly as they
want to go to the hospital without going
broke when he came into the White House
Elon vowed he'd be the beacon of good
governance and that Doge would cut $2
trillion from government spending in one
year then he knocked that down to1
trillion then he made it 150 billion i
think Elon's boring company has a side
hustle of moving the goalposts but that
$150 billion that was so essential to
cut they could find that in five minutes
by taxing billionaires but instead Elon
and Trump are cutting crucial money for
food assistance and Medicaid not to
mention cutting funding from the IRS
just to make it easier for the richest
people in America to cheat on their
taxes if Elon and the dudes at Doge
really wanted to implement lasting
change they try to codify their changes
by going through that pesky other branch
of government Congress but Elon doesn't
care his disappointment in Trump's bill
is just another piece of performance art
if Republican politicians truly cared
about any modicum of fiscal
responsibility they would know that
keeping guys like Musk away from our
government isn't optional it's
essential