Musk just took office, the first move was to cut the US military spending by hundreds of billions? This may be good for China
When Musk became the head of the U.S. Department of Efficiency, his first move was to target the U.S. military, which would cut hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending. What are the specific details? Why is it said that Musk's move is beneficial to China? On November 14, local time, Musk, who had just been appointed by Trump as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), began to "recruit troops and buy horses." DOGE's main responsibilities are to streamline the U.S. federal government and improve administrative efficiency, so that after implementing tax cuts, the U.S. fiscal expenditure can be reduced. In fact, Musk carried out similar reforms after acquiring Twitter and changing its name to the "X" platform. It took half a year to lay off 90% of the employees, leaving only about 1,000 full-time employees. After taking office, Musk and his deputy Ramaswamy made a high-profile statement that 75% of the U.S. expenditures could be "easily cut," at least about 2 trillion in budgets could be cut. This situation has sparked widespread discussion across the United States. Obviously, after the reform of the "X" platform, Musk is very confident and is ready to apply his strategy to the U.S. government system.
BabyMarvin Indeed, judging from the US fiscal expenditure, Musk has a lot of room for maneuver. In 2023, the US federal government's fiscal expenditure was 6.4 trillion US dollars, equivalent to about 46.03 trillion yuan. In contrast, China's fiscal expenditure for the year was 27.513 trillion yuan. Considering that the territorial area of China and the United States is about the same, but the total population of the United States is only a quarter of that of China, and the level of public infrastructure is far inferior to that of China, it can make fiscal expenditure 60% higher than that of China, which can explain a lot of problems. Moreover, this is only the expenditure of the US federal government. You must know that as a federal country, the United States has separate statistics on taxes and expenditures for the federal and state governments, while China calculates them uniformly. In 2023, the tax revenue of the US states was 2.5 trillion US dollars and the local governments were 1.5 trillion US dollars. The federal government's deficit reached 2 trillion US dollars, and the state and local deficits were also at this level, so the US expenditure exceeded 12 trillion.
As if to prove that his statement was accurate, Musk also began to publish all DOGE movements on his "X" platform, and also announced a number of "stupid expenditures", including grants to lgbt, diversity, historical and cultural institutions in many countries. Among these funds, the projects to China are not only the largest in number, but also the largest in amount, with the highest expenditures published reaching 2.4 million US dollars. It has to be said that Musk's operation is indeed a big benefit to China. However, if you want to achieve Musk's big goal of "cutting 2 trillion", it is impossible to cut these expenses. Because the largest expenditure of the US fiscal budget is "discretionary expenditure", accounting for as much as 30%, of which military expenditure is the largest. At present, the US military expenditure has exceeded 900 billion US dollars. However, Musk is not easy to move this expenditure because it involves the interests of the US military and the military-industrial complex.
