Elon Musk: I got too involved in politics | The Economist

I think I got a little too involved in. politics, got carried away, frankly. Um. So, the um. you know, the the the goal with the sort. of dodge stuff was was to try to do. something about the the deficit, which. is massive. Um where the interest. payments exceed the amount of money. spent on. the Department of War. Like, basically, if you add up all the money spent on. um. what is now the Department of War and. the and and intelligence in the US, uh.

that is smaller than the interest. payments on the debt. So, that well, we. we we we need to sort of take a close. look at spending, um and make sure that. uh money is being spent in sensible ways. and that it is not wasted or spent on on. on fraudulent activities. Um. and um I got a lot of flak from this for. for this, obviously. Um But, the the. people don't understand just how um. simple it was for for the dodge team to. approve payments.