Why Musk flopped - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : But for all the attention they have gotten, Musk and his operatives haven't touched the main drivers of federal spending: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the military, veterans' benefits, and interest on the national debt.
62% : Spending under Trump and Musk, in other words, is on pace to increase by $500 billion in the administration's first year.
49% : That is less than 5 percent of federal spending.
43% : Perhaps Musk imagined that he and DOGE would be the ones to finally break that pattern and force federal spending to retreat.
37% : It has not clawed back any of the improper payments disbursed by Medicare and Medicaid, which amounted to $101 billion in 2023.
21% : Despite Musk's bromance with Trump, he has plainly been unable to make the president see that as long as Social Security, Medicare, and the other so-called "mandatory" spending programs are treated as untouchable, deficit spending will continue to soar.

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