President Trump Asked Point Blank About Elon Musk Starting A New Political Party

At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Trump was asked about Elon Musk starting a new political party.

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00:00And can I hold up, this is, I think, the first cabinet meeting since Elon Musk has not been a special government employee, not here anymore.

00:06He's now saying he's going to create a third political party. Are you worried about the impact that that could have?

00:12No, I think it'll help us. It'll probably help. Third parties have always been good for me. I don't know about Republicans, but for me.

00:19Are you second-guessing any of the cuts that Doe's made since, are you just arguing that it's off the rails the other day?

00:24We cut hundreds of billions of dollars with those. We could have done it differently. I would have done it differently a little bit, maybe.

00:31But it was something that we saved a lot of money. You can always second-guess.

00:38I guess some of the people in this room maybe would have done it slightly differently, and some would have done it exactly the way it was done.

00:44But it was dramatic, and it was important, and we found a lot of things like billions of dollars given to people for environmental protection,

00:53where they had $100 in the account, like in Atlanta, Stacy. And then you had another one with $20 billion here,

01:00and $20 billion here, and $2 billion here, and $15 billion.