The White House put out an urgent statement Tuesday, reassuring Americans that President Trump has no plans to cut Social Security or Medicare. The move came after Elon Musk, now an adviser in the Department of Government Efficiency (ironically abbreviated as "DOGE"), pointed out in a Fox News interview that entitlement spending makes up the largest share of federal expenditures. The predictable media spin-machine kicked into overdrive, leading to headlines suggesting that Musk and Trump were plotting entitlement cuts. Musk’s actual statement? That eliminating fraud and waste in entitlement programs could free up over $600 billion annually—a figure that should alarm every taxpayer. Yet the media’s response was to manufacture hysteria instead of asking a more important question: Why is…
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