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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a stark warning for Americans.
“Congress is making America bankrupt,” he wrote in a June 3 post on X.
The comment came as Musk reposted a chart from X account World of Statistics, showing U.S. budget deficits from 2000 to 2024 — and the numbers are sobering.
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In fiscal 2000, the federal government posted a $236 billion surplus, followed by a $128 billion surplus in 2001. (The chart didn’t distinguish between deficits and…
