Elon Musk’s Fake Savings Still Back Trump's Unfunded Tax Cuts Based On Those Savings

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Market, a Rupert Murdoch owned publicaation, offers a very educational summary of how Trump's Tax Cuts are built on a tiny fraction of savings  of those claimed falsely by Doge. Among other things, so far only $33 billion of claimed savings have been itemized with actual receipts to prove it. And many of them are one-offs like sales of buildings or termination of leases. Keep in mind that Must first claimed he could cut $2 trillion in yearly savings then reduced that to $1 trillion,

 

"Republicans are moving forward with a plan to cut taxes that could prove costly for the federal government — without promised savings from DOGE

I guess we can say so long to Elon Musk, his magic chainsaw and his big talk of cutting $1 trillion, or even $2 trillion, in “waste, fraud and abuse” from the federal budget.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and others in the Republican leadership aren’t waiting around for Musk’s miracle money before rushing ahead with President Donald Trump’s real flagship policy: tax cuts costing $500 billion a year (or more).
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And those tax cuts don't even include the promised no tax on overtime and no tax on tips.