Tesla CEO Elon Musk Warns U.S. ‘Bankruptcy’ Is Coming ‘Super Fast’ Without A
Dogecoin Inspired ‘Fix’
Billy Bambrough
Senior Contributor
Forbes
Musk, now a close advisor to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, has called for the appointment of some of the most bullish bitcoin and crypto investors to Trump’s cabinet.
Now, after a series of warnings the U.S. could be teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, Musk has predicted it could happen “super fast”—joking he will “fix” it with a “department named after a meme coin.”
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly warned the U.S. could collapse into “bankruptcy,”
“America is currently headed for bankruptcy super fast,” Musk posted to X, the social media platform he bought and rebranded from Twitter.
Musk was responding to a Doge Department of Government Efficiency X post that warned “the U.S. Government spent $6.16. trillion while only bringing in $4.47 trillion” in 2023. “This trend must be reversed, and we must balance the budget,” the Doge account posted.
U.S. national debt has skyrocketed in recent years, crossing the $34 trillion mark at the beginning of 2024, largely due to Covid and lockdown stimulus measures that sent inflation spiraling out of control and forced the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates at a historical clip.
Musk later responded “literally,” alongside a laughing emoji to a tongue-in-cheek X post that depicted Musk telling Trump: “We’re going to fix America with a department named after a meme coin.”
Musk’s campaign against excessive U.S. spending has resulted in the creation of the Doge Department Of Government Efficiency, which Musk has said he believes could strip $2 trillion from U.S. spending.
The Doge department is a nod to the shiba inu doge meme that’s also linked to the dogecoin cryptocurrency, named by Elon Musk as his “favorite” cryptocurrency and accepted as payment by his Tesla car.
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Doge’s association with the dogecoin bitcoin rival has caused the dogecoin price to more than triple over the last month, with billionaire Mark Cuban joking Musk could put dogecoin in the U.S. Treasury.
Tesla continues to hold around 10,000 bitcoin—sometimes called digital gold—worth almost $800 million on its balance sheet.
Earlier this year, T.rump floated the idea he could use bitcoin to “pay off our $35 trillion—hand them a little crypto check, right? We’ll hand them a little bitcoin and wipe out our $35 trillion,” he said.
In July, Trump promised to create a “strategic national bitcoin reserve” and predicted bitcoin could eclipse gold’s $16 trillion market capitalization during an appearance at the Bitcoin 2024 conference.
Editor’s Note
We will leave it to each of our readers to make their own decision regarding the feasibility of using the bitcoin as a solution to our fiscal problems. However regarding the basic position set forth by Mr .Musk that the US is headed for bankruptcy we are in complete agreement. Furthermore we are equally concerned as to whether there is a solution to the problem. In a nutshell the procedures that govern the operations of the House and Senate reward those that sponsor spending funds and punish those that move to restrict spending. Consequently there is an informed basis for concluding there is no solution to the problem as demonstrated by the continuous increase in the deficit.
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