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⚡📰 Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending
Non paywalled:https://archive.md/a6IQC
The article is more nuanced than the title.
Depending on public money myself, this topic keeps fascinating me. More so, being able to do it from the sidelines, keeps me emotionally mostly uninvested.
In large part this is because of the way America’s budget is structured. The government is on track to spend $7trn this year. Nearly two-thirds of this consists of mandatory expenditures on Social Security and health insurance. Interest payments account for ...
[Original Article](https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/12/elon-musk-is-failing-to-cut-american-spending?utm_campaign=a.io_fy2425_q4_conversion-coreasc-cbdr-sub_prospecting_global-global_auction_btl&utm_medium=social-media.content.pd&utm_source=facebook-instagram&utm_content=conversion.content.non-subscriber.content_staticlinkad_np-americanspending-n-mar_na-na_article_na_na_na_na&utm_term=sa.int-all&utm_id=faq420455&fbclid=IwY2xjawI6hvBleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqxrF_qOLFQEdfYpTX5XwTcPqvxte6kNxX7j3uVVyD0KUmepolyMYkKwNsOA5uKAe9ekM_aem_IfZclbB5SGQNAKHveeKp4g) | via [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/908272/r/botlab)
Non paywalled:https://archive.md/a6IQC
The article is more nuanced than the title.
Depending on public money myself, this topic keeps fascinating me. More so, being able to do it from the sidelines, keeps me emotionally mostly uninvested.
In large part this is because of the way America’s budget is structured. The government is on track to spend $7trn this year. Nearly two-thirds of this consists of mandatory expenditures on Social Security and health insurance. Interest payments account for ...
[Original Article](https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/12/elon-musk-is-failing-to-cut-american-spending?utm_campaign=a.io_fy2425_q4_conversion-coreasc-cbdr-sub_prospecting_global-global_auction_btl&utm_medium=social-media.content.pd&utm_source=facebook-instagram&utm_content=conversion.content.non-subscriber.content_staticlinkad_np-americanspending-n-mar_na-na_article_na_na_na_na&utm_term=sa.int-all&utm_id=faq420455&fbclid=IwY2xjawI6hvBleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqxrF_qOLFQEdfYpTX5XwTcPqvxte6kNxX7j3uVVyD0KUmepolyMYkKwNsOA5uKAe9ekM_aem_IfZclbB5SGQNAKHveeKp4g) | via [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/908272/r/botlab)