Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is urging Elon Musk to stay with his authentic function to chop $2 trillion in wasteful executive spending.
“After promising his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would cut $2 trillion in government waste, Musk’s ambition is rapidly shrinking. Within weeks, he cut his goal in half to $1 trillion – all before he’s actually cut a single dollar. I don’t want Musk to fold so quickly,” Warren wrote in a Tuesday Fox Information op-ed.
“I crunched the numbers and found $2 trillion that we could cut over the next 10 years by focusing on the guys who are getting rich off our government,” she added.
She famous those cost-cutting efforts don’t should be a partisan factor. Warren prompt President Trump and Musk to chop wasteful spending with “courage” amid the dignity of her proposals.
“If Musk and Trump have the braveness to chop this waste, I’ve were given a plan and 30 explicit suggestions to get it carried out,” she concluded.
Her tips had been defined in a Thursday letter to Musk, calling on officers to shy clear of “cold-hearted cruelty” cuts to crucial products and services however somewhat center of attention on reform for Division of Protection (DoD) spending and removing well being care profiteering.
“The Air Force pays over 7,500% more on soap dispensers than regular Americans do. The Army pays $71 for pins that should cost less than a nickel. Spending is so out of control at DoD that it is the only agency in government that cannot pass a simple audit,” Warren wrote.
“American taxpayers are sick of getting scammed by overpaid military contractors,” she persisted.
Warren additionally proposed that Medicare Benefit program be regulated extra, noting that fee estimates that non-public insurers overcharged tax payers by means of just about $83 billion final 12 months.
“Taxpayers are also getting swindled by for-profit health insurance companies. Right now, about half of all seniors have been lured into a privatized Medicare program called Medicare Advantage,” the Massachusetts senator said. “This program was started to lower costs for seniors, but over time the insurers figured out how to boost their profits by manipulating claims and denying coverage.”
“Rooting out their dirty tactics could save more than a trillion dollars over ten years without cutting Medicare benefits by one penny,” she added.
