Elon Musk Suggests He Alone Decides What Gets Funded in the Government

Elon Musk appeared at President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday to talk about what the billionaire was doing with DOGE, the group that’s currently dismantling the federal government in an illegal powerplay that circumvents Congress. And while Musk repeated a line he’s said previously about how he would inevitably make mistakes while cutting trillions from the budget, there was another moment where he accidentally revealed he’s unilaterally choosing what gets funded or not. “I should say we will make mistakes. We won’t be perfect. But when we make mistakes, we’ll fix it very quickly,” Musk said. The billionaire oligarch then gave his example of a “mistake” that was corrected, which was extremely revealing. “So for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola prevention,” Musk said. “I think we all want Ebola prevention. So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately. And there was no interruption. But we do ... Read full article.