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Putting the third rail in their mouths now

Sure they will, right after they bring down the price of eggs and gas...

This is a good general policy. Still illegal for DOGE to do it.

Old Musky might be biting off more than he can chew with this one. Even with the threat of a primary challenger, I think individual Republicans balk at this.

Which is why they are bringing it up now. Gives Musk and Trump a chance to normalize it before they do it.

I was going to say, he may finally have picked a target that GOP politicians do NOT go along with.

“Musk’s team.” JFC.

They could just take it from the black budget, since there's no accounting there by definition. 😈 Or cut it completely and force more into the normal balance.

8% reduction would be reasonable.

👍

Where's Congress in all this?

They don't have the authority to do that. Only Congress does.

Makes good headlines, will still be getting all they want. The new rich will get what they want, Thiel and his band of thieves will profit. It’s a replay of the late 1800’s and robber barons.

Stop saying doge

That will go over well with all the fat cat contractors. There goes the defense contributions.

Good idea!

Honestly take 80%

CUT the defense budget???? I thought that Trump wanted a strong military

Thanks for the correction.

Seriously 😏

$1 x 1.1 x 0.92 = $1.01

Unlike the other agencies, this will be a huge battle.

If a Democrat proposed this, the GOP would claim that our boys are starving, shoeless, in rags in the trenches.

Wanna fucking bet...

Elon Musk and his band of hatchet men are gutting the entire fortitude of America! Is there no stopping them? youtu.be/Wc4o58Yw238?...

Cut out the tesla's

What do you do for a living?

If you seen the movie “Robocop” 1987 when security was privatized to corporation 😝

Perhaps cut down the amount we spend on Trump’s golf carts and properties and his children.

Start with cutting Space X and Tesla contracts. No need to think about Mars when we are cutting SNAP for the young women who were forced to carry their rapist’s child.

Oop…just gonna slide this right here bsky.app/profile/sile...

How much of those “savings” are going to be “reinvested” in cybertanks?

You just know that no matter what that Pentagon spending is all totally top secret, so numbers thrown around for us to see are just nonsense ....

So a foreign born Russian sympathiser is about to weaken our military on a massive scale?

Oh now things are about to go to the next level 👀👀👀👀

The second amendment was written for people like Elon Musk.

I guess we will see what effect having fox "news" on screens in every mess hall for decades has on our security. Also interested in what "cuts" are discussed in an era where both parties give the Pentagon more money than it asks for budget after budget to avoid partisan criticism.

I'll believe it when I see it...

Well that ought to go over well with the war hawk republicans

They'll primarily make cut to the workforce but leave the spending on equipment the same, if not increase it. I don't see them actually doing any significant or worthwhile cuts.

Didn't Hegseth just say we aren't capable of defending against Russia? I guess the solution is to ally with Russia then cut defense spending. I hate this...

Lol he'll be against the wall within 15 minutes of actually trying this

2) It is more terrifying every day. Could Elon and Putin be working together putting the screws to Traitor Don all the while destroying the US from within?? Traitor Don doesn't act the same with Elon around. Would someone check the audio on what Musks son said to tRump... that could be very telling.

1)Why is Elon in the Oval office fully controlling the narrative about how HE is cutting government waste while DISMANTLING the US while Traitor Don, who is an obnoxious blow hard who notoriously crazes the spotlight, is sitting behind the desk like a sullen child that was threatened to behave.

I just want them to reconstruct the naval base in Balboa secretly shaped as a swastika instead of finding ways to defund US or finding trillion dollar tax cuts for bigoted selfish out of touch treasonous billionaires. I’m not even asking for anything personally. See how that works? #empathy

It only took 53 days. Handpicked incompetents and doge is how he will do it. www-theatlantic-com.translate.goog/ideas/archiv...

Elon & his merry band of DIGITAL BROWNSHIRTS. We are witnessing an electronic coup. Fight back! Confront the incels. Picket their lodgings. Write "Douche" on every Tesla you see. Egg Elon. Harass Fox News employees. Shout down GOP members. Protest and, most of all, shame those who have no shame.

The Republicans aren't growing any spines. They are all MAGAts now. They'll pretend to be upset not to lose votes back home, but they'll support every vote that the Orange Felon wants taken. The Republican party is dead. It's the Trumplican party/cult now.

good luck taking on the military industrial complex lol

Cover the Tesla protests.

And why next year? I call bull. Hes just saying stuff to placate.

What only 8%? 🤷‍♀️

I am thinking part of the 8% cut includes anything that would investigate or evaluate the suitability of Elon's products for use by the DoD.

Remember, the Pentagon is in Virginia. State arrests and prosecution’s resulting in jail time could happen there. 👍🇺🇸

So musk is going to end up on a Lockheed Martin “wanted” poster

I'm afraid that, with the inaction of Congress and the imminent threat to public health and safety, this is all going to end badly with the U.S. Military (minus Hesgeth) getting involved.

We’re all focused on where Musk is gonna cut but how much does the C-5 galaxy flights across the globe at a million $ a piece to fly immigrants 15 at a time displace the necessities? Like food and bullets.

Lol

That’s gonna go over like a lead balloon.

Soukd be interesting. Wonder how Seal Team 6 will react.

Well don’t hesitate to take back US troops in Europe it doesn’t feel they are in our countries to safeguard democracy but more as threat coz now US is EU enemy Take them back

This is probably the part of the budget that actually does need to be audited, but that's for Congress not Elon Musk.

Does this include Hegseth’s $137,000 “emergency repair” request for his living quarters? Because if you’re looking for waste, that guy is the definition of it.

Doubt this will end as well as they are trying to frame it.

Let's see them push past that Marine guard. I'll bring the popcorn

I think that somehow, that isn’t going to happen.

Well if there IS a Deep State we're about to find out cause ain't nobody ever cutting the Pentagon's budget. Elon and/or BLOTUS better stay away from open windows!

No more liquor in the Sec Defense Office!!

and let me guess, nothing will be cut from what DoD pays Musk companies.

Call me skeptical but if there's any industry that would be willing to strangle Elon I'm his sleep it would be the military industrial complex

Yes, but not you, not your team, and not like this

As my son said yesterday, The last president that went after the Military Industrial Complex didn't make it out of Dallas alive.

Something to cheer about, finally

I welcome that

In theory a good thing but when you put the wrong people in charge, you will get the unintended outcomes.

He has no legal right to do this. Congress has this sole right. Not even the president. If we aren’t going to enforce the constitution, we don’t have one.

good. but we won’t save anything they’ll be taking all the money for themselves

lol, and furthermore, lmao

stopped clock, etc

I wouldn't mind this so much if they weren't acting like Russian agents. The sabotage they've already done to our national security is unbelievable.

Musk has exactly ZERO constitutional or legal authority to do any of this.

He could cut it down to 200 employees!

Just sell older weapons to Ukraine, donors will happily finance that. They won’t do that, of course, Putin is their mentor and sponsor.

They’ll start with any competing contractors to Starlink and Spacex.

Cut 80 you sniveling apartheid baby coward

Good!

Can he just "cut" money from the defense budget? Maybe waste and fraud would do that. But not the actual allocated money. The last I heard the GOP wanted to add money to the defense budget. Seems there is going to be a bit of issue based on what the House budgets and what DOGE wants to do

They done with NASA already? Wow! They're nothing if not efficient, they should name themselves after a crypto coin or something! Did they get the history part finally right where SpaceX was built on everything that NASA founded? Everything.

But, that's not actually legal under the constitution and centuries of precedent.

The military vote has a FAFO moment.

I take it Putin really is in charge.

Literally the only thing I agree on.

Put money lonE skuM is gonna have an accident very shortly. Then again didn't his boys get chased off by the DOD? Like they walked in and pretty quickly walked right back out. Could be wrong

This is an illegitimate entity.

Zero out Space X. Job done.

Extremely funny, tbh.

Literally at the same time as the House budget markup process is trying to *increase* the defense budget… strap yourselves in.

Should be 25%

Only 8!!!!!!!!??????? Should be 8%.

Let me guess. GROK to control CENTCOM.

"cost cuts" = moving the money to SpaceX and Tesla. US Army gonna be driving armored Teslas unfortunately...

Did Putin or Xi suggested that?

Trump’s daddy is loving this

Actually not a bad idea. We could do this and still spend more than the rest of the top ten countries combined. Maybe start with that $400 million armored Tesla Cybertruck contract?

Im sure thats a well thought out number and not just some hypothetical with zero expert on necessary defense spend

I hope the pentagon reacts like a nest of hornets!

But not his own government contracts right??

I remember the glory days of democracy when Congress would vote in this.

Makes it tough for his employees to leave too

First thing I am in full support of. It's been common knowledge for at least a full generation that the military is full of waste. Anyone remember the $435 (often reported as $600) hammer?

I'm already seeing requests from the USN for $40 billion more to build additional guided missile destroyers, so where will this money come from if Musk cuts 8% out of their budget? Readiness? Maintenance? Training?

* BUT not from the billions he gets in defense spending.

All for the $5 trillion dollar tax cut that will go straight to Elon and Trump's billionaire cabinet.

When Democrats under President Obama attempted this Republicans lost their minds. Let’s see if they say anything now….

…whereas Space X and Tesla contracts blow up.