Why Elon Musk is Wrong About Trump’s Spending Priorities
One of the hardest concepts in life is the need to balance the short-term and the long-term. It is human nature to want immediate gratification, but often the most reward decisions are ones that look out multiple years. Sometimes sacrifice in the near-term is necessary to achieve bigger and more important results down the road. The President’s tariffs and Musk’s proposed government cuts are two examples of key actions that should pay bigger dividends in the future. Trump’s goal of bringing back manufacturing jobs to the United States and shifting the American economy away from China is why the 47th President has taken economic actions that may slightly curtail growth in the next couple months.
Still, Musk could not be more wrong about the critically important and massive spending bill Republicans are poised to debate in the Senate after this piece of legislation passed the House last month. The United States is at the crossroads right now. Biden and the Democratic party tried to essentially rig the political system by bringing in millions of illegal immigrants to change the voting landscape in the critically important swing states. The left spent massively on wasteful green energy projects, opening the border, and sending hundreds of billions to Zelensky’s corrupt regime. The prior administration was as incompetent as Biden was corrupt.
What Musk is missing is that this is a rare and special opportunity for the Republican party to both clean-up the mess that Biden has left in addition to the fact that conservative can take actions to position the US for long-term success. The SAVE Act is critically important to stopping the Democrats from opening the border and bringing in illegals to manipulate the electoral college, and making the Trump tax cut the President signed in 2017 permanent is key to bringing back manufacturing jobs and shifting the US economy away from Communist China. This is a once in a generation opportunity for Republicans, now is not the time for conservatives to pull back and try and balance the budget when interest rates at lower levels anyways. Today is not the 1970s or the 1990s, when cutting spending was a necessity for the Federal Reserve being able to lower rates and get the economy going. The Republican party also needs to fund ICE so the federal government can make the necessary deportations as well.
Elon Musk did important work at DOGE and Trump should focus on making the government more efficient as well as cutting spending over his 4 year term, but now is not the time to make massive cuts. The US needs to rebuild the military after 4 years of failed policies by Biden, make the Trump tax cut permanent, and give ICE the resources the Department needs so that the proper deportations can be done. Musk is not seeing the forest from the tree or understanding the importance of the moment, Republicans have to take immediate and necessary actions to both clean up the mess the Democrats left for Trump as well as to stimulate the weak economy that Biden has handed to the President. This is not a time to pullback.
The left has no interest in cutting government spending in the short-term or the long-term, and Republicans should continue the work Elon Musk started with DOGE during the President’s 4-year term. Now is not the time for massive cuts though. In addition to the fact that the Government needs to spend significantly to clean up Biden’s mess, interest rates are low right now, this is not the time for the kind of massive cuts Musk’s comments imply that he wants to see right now. Trump can focus on the putting the US on the correct fiscal path over the next 3 years, he has more important priorities that require more spending at the moment.
