About a week before Election Day 2024, Elon Musk appeared at a rally in support of Donald Trump’s candidacy and made a striking boast: In the Republican’s second term, the GOP megadonor said, he’d uncover ways to cut “at least $2 trillion” from the federal budget.
This was impossible to take seriously — the federal government’s entire discretionary budget is only about $1.8 trillion — and the world’s wealthiest individual is apparently coming to terms with this nagging detail. […]
Elon Musk already backing off one of his key pre-election promises – MSNBC News