Tech baron Elon Musk walked back a prior claim that his vaunted blue ribbon commission on government bloat and inefficiencies would be able to slash the roughly $6.75 trillion federal budget by $2 trillion.
Elon Musk concedes DOGE unlikely to find $2 trillion in budget cuts — but here’s what would be an ‘epic outcome’
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