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“Real Time” host Bill Maher He closed his program on Friday night calling Elon Musk and Dege for not taking a chainsaw to find mass cuts in military spending.
Maher began playing a president clip Donald Trumpwho suggested last month that his administration would find “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse” in the army, juxtaposing those comments to the announcement of the defense department this week of Cut $ 580 million From its budget of $ 900 billion, well below the figures that Trump floated.
“When they talked about reducing the government, I said: ‘Yes, great, but the acid test will be whether they pursue the greatest swelling of all: obsolete weapons programs,” Maher explained. HBO host then cited Musk’s X publications last November when he said: “Please, in the name of everything that is holy, we stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program.”
“Exactly your Cellence X,” Maher joked.
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The host of “Real Time”, Bill Maher, took a “chainsaw” to Elon Musk and Dege for not going after the defense expense of the United States. (Screen/hbo capture)
“But today, Trump announced that we are building a new combat plane, the F-47 … So what happened to the obsolete combat planes in the era of drones,” Maher hit the technological billionaire? He added: “Because I feel that you are avoiding on purpose the elephant in the room. He knows the new boss, like the old boss, the two billion waste that they originally said they could cut. Yes, they will not get there shooting the posters and the guy who tells you not to lean on the railroad in the Great Canyon.”
HBO host called the “$ 35 billion” of Doge in savings so far, but has left the “fattest objective to hunt” “without being bothered in the Potomac in the Pentagon, a place that Eisenhower warned us that it was out of control in 19-F — ING-61!”
He then cited the $ 6.8 billion in the federal budget of 2024 and had a circular graph that showed the defense expense represented 47% of the $ 1.8 billion in discretionary expenses, with any other department in a single digit.
“Do you mean that there is hardly a penny of waste in this half?” Maher pointed out 47%. “You may not know how to code as Elon’s nerd brigade, but I could read a cake graph.”
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President Trump suggested that “hundreds of thousands of millions” in fraud and abuse could be eliminated from military spending. (Pool through AP)
“It is surprising. The right and the left in this country are despised, but they agree on two things. One, watches the Jews because they are always plotting something,” Maher joked. “And two, the defense budget is always perfect, like the Virgin Mary. In fact, it is always fine if it becomes bigger. It is like a virgin Gap Maria.”
Maher showed that the United States defense spending is “higher than the next nine combined countries” and cited a study of the 2017 pentagon that acknowledges that they had “19%” more bases worldwide than he needs.
“Wouldn’t it be ‘efficient’ close some of those, the 750 bases in 80 countries that we have worldwide? Do we all need? Is there no place to light the old chainsaw there?” Maher asked. “The Air Force has 51 golf courses. Marines have ten. Guam has two. Nothing? Isn’t there room, Vroom for that?”
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Maher said the Pentagon was “a place that Eisenhower warned us out of control in 19-F — ing-61!” (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Archive)
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He also pointed to the Department of National Security, which called the definition of the “swollen bureaucracy” dictionary and a “Frankenstein monster born in panic after September 11”.
“Until now, Dege has eliminated 50 million of its budget of $ 170 billion. You know, any other part of the government has to tighten its belt. How is the part that makes me take mine at the airport?” Maher said. “More than 20 years have passed from these bulls —. We begin to do it before there were smartphones or AI. I suppose there is a better way to maintain this sure that all those who vanished in public.”
“No one thinks you need your photo to fly from Tulsa to Spokane. It is no longer on September 11. It is 2025. And I’m not afraid of the kidnappers. I am afraid of the plane,” he added.
