New Delhi: Elon Musk‘s latest statement on Social Security and Medicare in an interview with Fox News raised an alarm as he called this ‘entitlement spending‘. Elon Musk’s supporters, however, claimed that his statement was misconstrued by the Democrats and Elon Musk did not ever mention that he wanted to cut Social Security but he was talking about cutting down the fraud. Musk has already shut down SSA offices triggering speculations that his Department of Government Efficiency would now come after the Social Security payments.
The apprehension turned true as Musk suggested that $500 billion to $700 billion in waste needed to be cut. “Most of the federal spending is entitlements. That’s the big one to eliminate,” Elon Musk said in the Fox interview.
White House official responds to Pete Buttigieg over Social Security row
Former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Elon Musk’d statement on Social Security and said, “There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it ‘the big one to eliminate,” Buttigieg wrote.
Alex Pfeiffer, deputy assistant to the president and principal deputy communications director, corrected Buttigieg and said despite being Ivy League educated, Buttigieg could not understand that Musk was speaking about ‘waste and fraud in entitlement spending‘.
“Pete Buttigieg is Ivy League educated and allegedly smart. So can he not hear Elon say “waste and fraud in entitlement spending” or is he lying to you?” the White House official said.
Bishop Talbert Swan posted: “The richest man on Earth, who pays little to no taxes, thinks your grandmother’s medicine and your grandfather’s check are the problem—not corporate greed, not tax breaks for the wealthy, not trillion-dollar war budgets. This level of wickedness is staggering.”
“Musk said the quiet part out loud: he’s going after your Social Security and Medicare. Period,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., wrote on X. “Mark my words. They will make you pay in every part of your life.”
Democrat podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen wrote, “Elon Musk just said he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, calling them ‘entitlements’: ‘That’s the big one to eliminate.’”
