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New Senate GOP Leader Thune, DOGE Co-Chair Musk Discuss ‘General’ Spending

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, December 5th, 2024

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New Senate GOP Leader Thune, DOGE Co-Chair Musk Discuss ‘General’ Spending

Elon Musk at SATELLITE 2020. Photo: Via Satellite

Incoming Senate GOP Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Thursday he discussed “general“ spending with Department of Government Efficiency co-chair Elon Musk during a meeting on Capitol Hill. Thune offered the brief insight into his meeting with Musk in response to a question from Defense Daily on whether the two discussed defense spending. Musk, CEO of Tesla [TSLA] and SpaceX, and his DOGE co-chair and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy were on Capitol Hill for a series of meetings with House and…

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