Stephanie Ruhle: Americans Need a Better Understanding of What Elon Musk Is Doing

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RUHLE: "That's the whole thing. What you’re seeing is a flurry of executive orders from the president. The reason he’s doing it is because he can’t get Congress to, right? Republicans have such a thin margin. If he wanted to get a lot of this done, they would be the ones to do it a couple of months from now. But he can’t. you said it, with regard to Elon Musk, whether or not he’s wealthy or not, you can put aside. But what he is, is an unelected, unvetted business person who is filled with conflicts of interest. This man has billions and billions of dollars of government contracts with the United States government and governments abroad. So when you talk about actions where we’re trimming our federal workforce, where we’re limiting our agencies, and what that does is open an opportunity for foreign countries, foreign countries that Elon Musk may have government contracts with. And this just goes back to transparency. So, yes, what you said at the top, yeah, the American people, they want to get rid of waste. They don’t feel good about our bloated government. But they need a better understanding of what Elon Musk is doing. And my last point would be, running a business, right, we want the government to run more efficiently, but a business has a completely different goal from the government, right?”