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Elon was serious about the debt. Thats why he and Trump don't get along any more. After the initial DOGE efforts, Trump raised the debt ceiling a few trillion dollars and got a new spending bill passed that increase spending like another trillion dollars - obviously not concerned about the debt.

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"serious" at a superficial level. He never understood what he was doing, and went around smashing things indiscriminately, often in a way that was more expensive (e.g., laying off federal workers who were paid for doing nothing for months, then rehired when someone realized that they were in fact doing something valuable).

Trump and Musk get along fine. They sat next to each other and chatted at Charlie Kirk's funeral: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/tech/donald-trump-elon-musk-c...

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