Elon Musk's Wasteful Spending Claim

This is a America news story, published by The New Republic, that relates primarily to Miller news.

America news

For more America news, you can click here:

more America news

Miller news

For more Miller news, you can click here:

more Miller news

News about Us federal policies

For more Us federal policies news, you can click here:

more Us federal policies news

The New Republic news

For more news from The New Republic, you can click here:

more news from The New Republic

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best politics news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like this article about Us federal policies, you might also like this article about

wasteful federal spending

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest national debt news, Elon Musk news, news about Us federal policies, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

improper federal payments

The New Republic

•

Elon Musk’s Stealth War Against the Poor

Summary

Nutrition label

74% Informative

Elon Musk’s America PAC tweeted a list of what he held to be wasteful federal spending in 2023 .

Aaron Miller : Musk fundamentally misunderstands the federal government.

Miller : A crackdown on improper payments would not produce the desired savings.

He says the vast majority of improper payments in fiscal year 2023 were “overpayments” Miller : Even if Republicans are foolish enough to target poor people who have made minor mistakes on forms, the clawback amount would be nowhere close to “trillions of dollars”.

The way the SSA went after improper payments was so cruel that the reporting on the stories of the individuals targeted by the agency won a bunch of newsrooms a big award.

By design, improper payments primarily measures errors in programs for poor Americans rather than errors that benefit the rich.

By contrast, the improper payments total does not include the roughly $150 billion of evaded taxes that we give to the wealthy annually .

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

possibly offensive