The DOGE Debt Failure
Musk vs. Trump: The Fiscal Fallout
What happens when the world’s richest man starts publicly attacking U.S. fiscal policy?
This past week, Elon Musk has taken to his platform X with renewed urgency following his resignation from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
What’s materialized since is a public brawl, still ongoing, between Musk and President Trump. At the center of it: a bill that Musk has called a “disgusting abomination.”
The bill, branded the “big beautiful bill” by Trump, has become a lightning rod, estimated to add between $3 and $5 trillion to the total federal debt, depending on who you ask.
Musk has called out the wasteful spending buried in the bill, campaigned to kill it outright, and resurfaced old Trump quotes warning about government bloat.
Trump fired back by threatening to cut off all government contracts and subsidies to Musk’s companies. “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” he posted on Truth Social.
Hours later, Musk replied to a post on X suggesting Trump should be impeached. His response: “Yes.”
This fallout follows Musk’s involvement in the Trump campaign and his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency, which began with an ambitious goal of slashing $2 trillion from the federal budget.
That mission is now over. And with it, any illusion that fiscal restraint is a priority in Washington.
From DOGE to Disillusionment
DOGE aimed to reduce spending by $2 trillion to put America back on a sustainable fiscal path, but by the time Musk stepped down last week, DOGE had only produced an estimated $180 billion in projected savings.
Those savings are across multiple years, making this year’s savings even more insignificant. It’s estimated that it saved $2,000 per taxpayer, compared to the per-taxpayer debt burden now exceeding $300,000, as US federal debt stands at nearly $37 trillion.
To be honest though, this is not surprising, as the fiscal position of the United States is beyond reconciliation with interest payments on the debt alone reaching $1 trillion this year, more than the entire defense department budget, as Elon pointed out back in March.
“Let’s not have America go bankrupt from waste and fraud,” he said in March. “The real wake-up call was seeing that interest payments on the national debt had exceeded the entire defense department budget. And it’s only growing.”
Now, with DOGE in the rearview and the fallout with Trump escalating, Musk is sounding the alarm, not just on one bill or one administration, but on a system-wide addiction to debt.
The System Is the Problem
This latest bill may have triggered Musk’s public clash with Trump but the real problem runs far deeper than any single president or party.
The United States government has run a deficit in 45 of the last 50 years, with the scale of deficits only growing. America is arguably already bankrupt.
This debt spiral is not an accident. It is designed into the system.
The United States government can issue new debt to fund its obligations and that is exactly what it has been doing. There is no incentive to cut spending or balance the budget because no politician wants to be in office when the country has to swallow its medicine.
So instead, they kick the can. Year after year. Administration after administration. They continue to drown citizens in debt and erode the value of the dollar. Politicians on both sides make short-term promises, and future generations inherit the bill.
This is not a debate about Republicans versus Democrats. It is a system problem. And it is a blatant Ponzi scheme.
Now, people are beginning to wake up. The incentives are broken, and the debt spiral is now baked into the system.
From Insider to Warning Siren
When Musk joined the administration, the promise was bold: slash spending and get America back on a path to fiscal sanity.
Instead, after months of minimal results, he seems to have concluded that reform is impossible. He has shifted from participant to whistleblower.
And in doing so, he has changed the conversation.
This isn’t a pseudonymous poster or obscure think tank. This is the most followed person on the planet. A man who once helped Trump get elected now saying the federal budget is a scam, the bill is a disaster, and both parties are selling out the American people.
That matters. Because when someone like Musk breaks ranks, it forces people to pay attention. It cracks the narrative open. It gives permission to ask, what if he is right?
So now the most important question becomes: what can people actually do?
Bitcoin Is the Exit
When interest payments exceed the defense budget, when the deficit grows by trillions and nobody in power even pretends to care, there are only two choices.
You can trust the system and hope it magically fixes itself. Or you can find the exit. Bitcoin is that exit.
It is not political. It is not controlled by any government. Its supply is fixed. It is designed for moments like this, when governments are drowning in debt and currencies are being devalued at an accelerating rate. It is designed to protect your hard-earned savings from government theft.
Musk hasn’t yet explicitly begun advocating for Bitcoin, but given his current trajectory, that’s not too far away. Because once you understand the debt spiral, there’s no going back.
The system will not change itself. But you can change where you store your wealth. Buy Bitcoin.